A killer is spinning a sinister web and the police are caught dead
center.
Three years ago, Detective Saga Bauer received an ominous postcard
describing a gun and nine white bullets--one of which was intended for
her partner, Detective Joona Linna. The sender alleged that Saga was the
only person who could save him. But as time passed, the threat faded.
Until now.
A sack with a decomposing body has been found hanging from a tree in the
forest. A milky white bullet casing turns up at the scene. When the body
count begins to rise, the police realize that the killer is sending
riddles, offering them the chance to stop the murders before they
happen. But the police always seem to arrive a moment too late. As they
begin to close in, the case becomes more and more tangled: someone is
spinning a fiendishly intricate web, pulling Joona ever closer to a trap
he may not be able to escape. A pulse-pounding descent into the chilling
world of a serial killer, The Spider is shocking and exhilarating in a
way only Lars Kepler could accomplish.