Контракт Паганини

On a summer night, a drowned woman in dry clothes is found on board an expensive deserted yacht, drifting in the skerries of Stockholm. The next day, a man dies in an apartment in the wealthy Östermalm district. How did he manage to hang himself from a lamp hook in a completely empty room with very high ceilings, where there was nothing to climb? And yet the police commissioner is sure: this is suicide.

The chain of gloomy 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 - the impassive killer, methodically following their trail, is omnipresent and indestructible, he literally moves towards his goal over corpses.

The Paganini Contract by Lars Kepler is a continuation of the detective series that began with The Hypnotist. And in the new thriller, a terrible tangle of crimes is unraveled by the already familiar Jona Linna - a criminal commissioner with a mysterious past and an unclear future, a talented detective with the appearance of a movie hero and a penchant for melancholy.

Lars Kepler's novels have become bestsellers all over the world, they are considered the standard of the Scandinavian thriller.

The film directed by Lasse Hallström “The Hypnotist” based on the novel of the same name was nominated by the Swedish Film Academy for an Oscar.