The Sleepwalker

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MORE THAN 17 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE The tenth thrilling installment in Lars Kepler's bestselling series- acclaimed for "smart psychological suspense," "explosive conclusions," and "gritty portrayals of human evil" (Booklist)-is tense and terrifying. An emergency call comes in the middle of the night. There is an ongoing burglary at a closed campsite in Bredäng, outside Stockholm. When the police respond to the call, there is a light on in one of the farthest caravans in the otherwise dark area, where the officers are greeted by a horrific sight. The floors, walls, and furniture are completely covered in blood. A person has been killed with an axe and brutally dismembered. In one of the rooms, a young man is sleeping on the floor with a severed arm as his pillow. He is arrested and taken into custody at Kronobergshäktet. There, he is identified as seventeen-year-old Hugo Sand, the son of a famous author. It turns out that Hugo is suffering from a rare kind of somnambulism, which is triggered by ...