A sixteen-year-old girl, the beautiful Jenny, is abducted in broad daylight as she returns home from school. She ends up in a dilapidated house, where she faces horrors far beyond her worst nightmares, along with other girls.
On a rainy night, five years later, Jenny's hanged body is found suspended in the middle of a playground. The police are struggling with extremely scant evidence to uncover anything that might lead to a breakthrough, when Inspector Joona Linna identifies a bizarre connection between Jenny's murder and a death that was reported as a suicide many years earlier.
The disappearance of yet another teenage girl makes it clear to Linna that they are dealing with a serial killer - and it is highly likely that his murderous spree has only just begun...
"Imagine Hannibal Lecter coming into spiritual communication with Stieg Larsson and then cranking the intensity way, way up!" - Brad Thor, author of Black Ice
"Lars Kepler possesses this rare ability to lead you to the edge of a cliff and keep you there until the very last page." - Chris Whitaker, author of We Begin at the End
"Kepler's skill in gradually building tension toward a shocking revelation and a quintessentially just resolution is unparalleled." - Publishers Weekly
"Dark and unearthly like a Swedish winter, The Mirror Man is a gripping read. Joona Linna faces his most dangerous adversary yet - a girl kidnapper whose inhumanity sends us a reflection of the deepest human evil." - Gregg Hurwitz, author of the Orphan X series
