Thriller set in Stockholm – The Rabbit Hunter by Lars Kepler

Submitted: 14th November 2019

Scandi Noir horror The Rabbit Hunter

Thriller set in Stockholm – The Rabbit Hunter by Lars Kepler. This is one scary read. It’s brutal and raw. Visceral so you can’t take your eyes off the horror. The foreign minister has been brutally murdered in Stockholm so the prime minster calls upon our Swedish hero Joona Lina for some help. Trouble is, Joona has been in prison for two years…

BookTrail Travel to the locations in The Rabbit Hunter

Setting: A scary version of Stockholm!

BookTrail Travel to the locations in The Rabbit Hunter

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If it’s grisly and gruesome you’re after, then the opening chapters of this book are going to give you all that and more! Jeepers, for those of a nervous disposition then this book might be worth just reading the reviews or at least the other books in the series to get you used to the style and substance!

Joona Lina, the main character of the series, is in prison when the book opens. When and how, others books explain (another good reason to read the others first) and then she gets a case where her expertise is going to help in the most bizarre way. What a case! The Swedish Foreign Minister is murdered and the city of Stockholm is left in fear.

If a book ever delved into the rotting underbelly of a city, then this is it. It’s a belly whose insides are rotting raw flesh which turns your stomach and makes you feel sick. But it’s compelling reading too…

The Rabbit Hunter of the title is the most horrific sounding and horrific in every other way serial killer in a book in my mind. Victims all hear the children recite a nursery rhyme about rabbits before the killer comes. You wouldn’t want to go to Stockholm for a booktrail anytime soon after this! Certainly not go anywhere where you might see a rabbit…

Effective but scary and visceral

Scandi Noir dialled up to the max!