Lars Kepler is a pseudonym for a Swedish married couple, Alexandra and Alexandra Koelho Andorill. Their debut thriller novel “The Hypnotist” became a worldwide bestseller and launched a gripping detective series. After “The Hypnotist,” translated into four dozen languages, came the equally successful “The Paganini Contract,” and then “The Stolen Virtue” — the third novel in a row about the mysterious handsome detective named Jonne Linn.
In a boarding school for difficult-to-raise teenage girls, bloody murders occur. One of the students and the nurse are found dead—each with both hands tightly pressed against her face, as if trying to hide her eyes from the killer. Fear and suspicion take over the institution. The investigation is assigned to Commissary Jonne Linn, though only as an observer—he himself is under official investigation. But can that stop a real Superman when it comes to the lives of children?