A family is found brutally murdered and their bodies are mutilated. Amongst the carnage one survivor is found clinging to life. In order to find and warn the one family member who was not at the house the night of the attack, Detective Joona Linna asks the once famous now disgraced hypnotist Erik Maria Bark to hypnotize and question the survivor. This starts a chain of events that escalates to the action packed and bloody ending.The Hypnotist's authors "Lars Kepler" has been marketed as the next Steig Larsson. Well it is a lot like the Larsson's books as it is LONG, very long, with lots of setting detail, divergent plot lines, and LOTS of back story. Even worse in the Hypnotist, scenes are told from different character viewpoints so you end up reading the same scene two or three times. There is a lot of action, but you have to wade through many slow points to get to it. So I did feel like this was very similar to "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" without the really cool Lisbeth character.
The violence in this book is graphic and some of the murder scenes and abuse described is not for the faint of heart. I listened to this book on CD, which is the only way I would have been able to get through this book. I did feel kind of bad eating my lunch while listening to the gory details. ;)
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