'The story is incredibly dark and the reader will be caught between wanting to turn the page to read on and being too scared to do so' SUN 'STALKER is terrifying yet hugely enjoyable to read but be warned, it may take you a while to sleep after you finish it' DAILY EXPRESS Praise for Lars Kepler: 'One of the most hair-raising crime novels published this year' SUNDAY TIMES 'Hurtles along ... full of nuanced detail which sets it far above the average thriller ... You'll be terrified' EVENING STANDARD 'Taking Europe by storm...ferocious, visceral storytelling that wraps you in a cloak of darkness' DAILY MAIL 'Deeply scarifying stuff' INDEPENDENT 'Chillingly vicious' MARIE CLAIRE 'Brilliantly scary' DAILY EXPRESS 'Kepler has a direct line to a very dark place in the human soul' Lev Grossman, TIME

Lars Kepler is a No.1 bestselling international sensation, whose Joona Linna thrillers have sold in excess of 9 million copies in 20 countries. The first book in the series, The Hypnotist, was selected for the 2012 Richard and Judy Book Club and the most recent, The Sandman, was one of the Evening Standard's books of the year. Stalker is the fifth novel in the series and went straight to No.1 in Sweden, Norway, Holland and Slovakia. Lars Kepler is the pseudonym for writing duo, Alexander and Alexandra Ahndoril. They live with their family in Sweden.