Late one night, outside Stockholm, Mikael Kohler-Frost is found wandering. Thirteen years earlier, he and his younger sister were reported missing, thought to have been victims of Sweden's most notorious serial killer, Jurek Walter, now serving a life sentence in a maximum security psychiatric hospital. Mikael insists that his sister is still alive and being held by the Sandman. Detective Inspector Joona Linna, the officer responsible for Jurek's capture years earlier, knows that any chance of rescuing Mikael's sister depends on getting Jurek to talk, and recommends Inspector Saga Bauer, a young prodigy wrestling her own demons. She will have to go under deep cover in the psychiatric ward where Jurek is imprisoned, and she will have to find a way to get to the psychopath before it's too late - and before he gets inside her head.
At first I thought this was going to be a Clarice Starling / Hannibal Lecter type of confrontation, relationship, and ensuing plot; although equally unnerving, the stories and protagonists do differ. The denouement feels chaotic and illogical, and it is only after the action ceases that the reader is privy to the knowledge the characters were acting upon; the final chapters felt so rushed and convoluted that I felt had to go back and re-read several pages to fully understand the who-what-where-why-when.
Posted By: Regina C. (submitted to Jen 5/21/18)
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