The Mirror Man is the eighth novel in Lars Kepler’s Joona Linna Swedish crime fiction series. Here, this husband and wife writing team tackle a frightening scenario so dreadfully evil that it is sobering to realize it is a scenario that has played out in reality. There is often a fine line between insanity and evil and the psychiatry profession tries to do their best to fix these twisted people, but as this novel teaches us, that profession somehow cannot fathom how treacherous evil can be and h...

I really hope this is the last book in series.Or...I really hope I will find some dignity and self-control and stop reading things like this just because I've started.

I love the crazy, creepy experience of reading a Lars Kepler novel, but their stories have become lazier as of late.

My first 5 stars of 2022!!! After Jenny is abducted in broad daylight, she is kept and tortured by her captor for five years. When she attempts to escape, her abductor follows her and murders her in a public park. Joona is brought in after another teenager is kidnapped and the clock starts ticking for her to be found.I am reading this series out of order (yikes - one of my pet peeves) but when I saw this one pop up on NetGalley I couldn’t resist. I love Joona so much - he is so flawed but so tal...

THERE IS A LOT GOING ON. TOO MUCH GOING ON. I AM TOO DUMB TO KEEP UP WITH THIS BOOK.THE END.

Who needs sleep anyways. Sat down to read and figured I might as well finish it, definitely a pageturner. Grizzly and dark, just the way you want a crime novel like this to be. 8th in the series about Joona Linna, and I think they need to be read in order.

For some unfathomable reason, I’ve read the entire Joona Linna series out of order. The Mirror Man is the most recent, and potentially the darkest out of the eight books currently released in the series. This probably would’ve been a five star read, if not for the grotesque dog fight scene that nearly made me give up on the book. Like whyyyy? Why couldn’t he search for the bad guy at a chocolate factory, or a circus, or the beaches of Tulum? But no, the book just HAD to take us into the deep dar...

Long a fan of Lars Kepler and the Joona Linna series, I was eager to get my hands on this latest publication. In a novel that is as intense as it is dark, the story pulls the reader into levels of depravity never thought imaginable. A young girl is kidnapped in plain sight and taken into custody, where she is locked away with a number of others. Years later, she’s found hanging in a playground, her past a great mystery. Now, a new girl has gone missing and Joona Linna is brought in to investigat...

This is the 8th book in the Joona Linna series by the husband and wife authors who go by the pseudonym of Lars Kepler.Not sure how I got into this series but hard to believe I have read all 8 books and enjoyed most of them.Detective Joona Linna is on the trail of a kidnapper who targets teenage girls and makes their worst nightmares a reality. Seventeen-year-old Jenny is abducted in broad daylight and taken to run down, isolated house where she is chained and caged along with several other girls...

Thank you so much to Knopf Publishing, Penguin Audio, and Lars Kelper for my copy of The Mirror Man. This book was so dark and creepy and I loved it. It’s about a serial killer who puts girls through unspeakable horror. When one of his victims is found five years after her abduction hung up in a park, the police realize there is a creepy connection to a death that was declared a suicide. Then another girl goes missing, and Joona Linna is on the case. The police start to track the killer, and thi...

Lars Kepler brings action, suspense, and heart-wrenching moments to The Mirror Man , the eighth novel in the Joona Linna Killer Instinct series. This is an unforgettable police procedural and crime thriller set in Sweden. Lars Kepler is the pseudonym for the husband and wife writing team of Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril. While this novel is the eighth in the series, it worked as a standalone novel for me. However, I believe reading the previous novels would reveal additiona...

October 2020I wasn’t going to write a review, and this still won’t be a proper one. When you’re eight books into a series (even though the books are are more or less counted as “stand-alones") it gets difficult to discuss a book without bringing up spoilers. But there is one thing I do want to discuss. And that is dissociative identity disorder. It is under spoiler territory so I will hide it in a spoiler tag. In a spoiler free context, the representation of this disorder isn’t in a good light.

After giving 5 stars to the previous book in this series I am bummed to give so few stars to this one here, but it's just the way it has to be as Mirror Man was uneven at best and needlessly crude and uninspired at its worst. This was Kepler's first book to actually read like it was written by two different people. At times the writing was crisp and suspenseful while at others clunky and shockingly dull: aka when it worked it worked and when it didn't it suuure didn't. Bummer. Cheers to the nex...

I’m not going to lie. I enjoyed this series in the past, although I still need to read books 6 & 7 (both are sitting on my shelves, unopened, but this one is a copy from the library and I couldn’t resist), but I was very disappointed with this one, especially the way they presented a case of mental health. If this was written in the 70’s (or even in the 90’s) perhaps it would be acceptable, but not nowadays, when there are so many updated studies and more understanding around the topic.Also, the...

This is a mammoth crime novel and not a quick read, but it manage to maintain pace and tension well given its length. It's a book with a really dark heart but there are characters you can really invest in. It reads like a crime saga really, and you need to let yourself get immersed in it, but it's well worth the effort. It's a gripping read, quite overwhelming, with some truly amazing writing. Parts of it were really very unsettling, which I loved. Highly recommended.

Another incredible book from Kepler 👏🏼 Thank you so much to the publisher for the gifted copy! I’m sure no one is surprised that I absolutely adored this. I love this series so so much and it remains my favorite crime series of all time. Kepler’s writing is beyond incredible in this book in particular and the pacing was top notch. Some of their books read quicker than others, and this one definitely aligns more with the pacing of a psychological thriller. This book was DARKKK. Kepler never holds...

Definitely one of the most addictive novels I've read in my 2022 advanced reading- I'm a fan of Lars Kepler anyway and I think this might be my favourite yet.A huge page turner with a haunting and creepy plot, an ending that I actually didn't work out in advance (very unusual for me these days) and some superbly engaging characters The Mirror Man is one of those novels you devour because every time you go to put it aside something happens that pulls you back in.Just one more chapter. That's what...

Over and over again I keep hearing Lars Kepler's name. My one girlfriend is obsessed and one of those creepy super fans. Well, my curiosity got the best of me and I caved. I needed to see what his books are all about! The Mirror Man is absolutely insane!!! I could not calm my heart rate down as i flipped the pages. I needed to know what was happening! Talk about intense? This was a 12 on a scale from 1 to 10. I was completely consumed and addicted early on. I could not take a break or even get u...

A lot more focus on action than mystery and suspense, which to me at least isn’t really as interesting in crime fiction. Also, there’s a lot of plot points that are way too incredible or illogical to lead up naturally to the conclusion.All in all, it’s very much on the popcorn side of Scandinavian noir, if you don’t expect to be blown away you might certainly find some entertainment at least.