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The Mirror Man: The most chilling must-read thriller of 2023

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Seventeen-year-old Jenny is abducted in broad daylight and taken to a dilapidated, isolated house where she is chained and caged along with several other girls. His mental illness is almost portrayed as an explicitly good thing in the context of the story, but the book still runs into the trouble that he is a mentally ill person who is a serial killer, even if he only engages in violence when sane.

National Crime Agent, Joona, is on the case and the book follows his investigations into their disappearance. At one point I was convinced I had the crime figured out, only to discover a twist I never saw coming.Some of their books read quicker than others, and this one definitely aligns more with the pacing of a psychological thriller.

Thankfully, Kepler makes it clear that his motivations are entirely based on his Christianity, taken to an uncomfortably familiar extreme degree. But if an author does not take any risks at all, they also run the risk of losing readers as they will not see a reason to read new entries. I would highly recommend these novels to anyone with time and a penchant for the darker psychologist thriller, alongside a police detective who will stop at nothing to get answers. When Jenny Lind, who was kidnapped five years earlier, is found hanging from a jungle gym in a local park, police are eager to find the culprit.I kind of was figuring things out yet if what I was figuring out was to make sense I wanted to know how the authors were going to sell it because I really doubted a lot of my inklings so to speak and I had strong doubts that this novel would make any sense in the end. The Mirror Man is the most recent, and potentially the darkest out of the eight books currently released in the series. Fast forward a few years later, and Jenny turns up dead, and the police’s only witness, Martin, who may be able to unlock the whole case, can’t remember anything from the night she was killed. Linna finds ways to get inside the heads of the most heinous killers and gets to the root of the crime.

As the police race to track down Jenny’s killer another young woman, Mia, goes missing and the tension really picks up a pace. 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. Our main hero Joona Linna the lead detective does not even appear for a while as the table is being set so to speak. With the police getting closer to the killer the girls being held captive are put in greater danger. And as they close in on the killer, they discover that the Mirror Man's crimes are more shocking than they ever could have imagined .I would like to thank both Net Galley and Knopf for supplying a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review. Which brings me to another aspect I find troubling, that is the depiction of mental health and its treatment, another area where it's probably true to say we are now more aware of sensitivities around turning mental health issues into fodder for crime novels.

Detective Joona Linna is on the trail of a kidnapper who targets teenage girls and makes their worst nightmares a reality. The police start to track the killer, and this only puts pressure on the killer who will stop at nothing.The book opens with a scene that throws us headfirst into the story, with the abduction of a young woman, Jenny Lind. The book opens with paired harrowing tales in which young, teenage girls either go missing or die, setting the modus operandi for Caesar’s operations throughout the story. When Mia, a seventeen-year-old orphan, goes missing, it becomes clear to Joona that they are dealing with a serial killer--whose murderous rampage has just begun. Pamela and Martin Nordström are introduced in the early chapters, five years prior to the main events of the novel, around the same time Jenny Lind first goes missing. If you would like yo read crime that is expertly handled with characters you ache for and prose rhar is rich, go for something like Chris Whittaker’s ‘We begin at the end’ or that staggeringly haunting ‘Beartown’ by Frederick Backman.

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