Контракт Паганини

IThe standard of a Scandinavian thriller! “The Paganini Contract” is a continuation of the detective series, which began with “The Hypnotist.”

And in the new thriller, a terrible tangle of crimes is unraveled by the already familiar Commissioner Jona Linna, a talented detective with the appearance of a movie hero and an inclination to melancholy. Time magazine named The Hypnotist one of the ten most important books of 2010, and the film based on the novel, directed by Lasse Hallström, was nominated by the Swedish Film Academy for an Oscar.

On a summer night on board a deserted yacht, drifting in on the skerries of Stockholm, a drowned woman in dry clothes is found. The next day, a man dies in the wealthy district of Östermalm. How did he manage to hang himself from a lamp hook in a completely empty room with high ceilings, where there was nothing to climb? A chain of dark events is rapidly unfolding. In a strange way, they are connected with a violin that belonged to the great Paganini, and the disastrous contract that marked his name. And in vain two lovers try to find salvation on the deceptively friendly islands among the fjords - a passionless killer methodically follows their trail.