The mentalist (Planet, 2022) is a thriller written by bestselling author Camilla Lackberg. who has also had the collaboration of Henrik Fexeus, one of the most prestigious mentalists in the world. The two have come together to build this novel of Black Nordic that has had a continuation with The sect.
In a macabre psychological game, A police officer and a mentalist team up to uncover the identity of a ferocious killer. who is leaving a string of crimes around Stockholm. A book full of mysteries and lies, with all the ingredients of the genre that will captivate the reader addicted to these stories from the first moment. This is a tandem novel in the purest style Black nordic.
The mentalist: a tandem novel in the purest Nordic noir style
illusionism and crime
In the surroundings of the city of Stockholm, the corpse of a woman who has been cruelly attacked appears. Mina Dabiri is a police officer who is investigating the case. AND the way in which the body was found (in a box pierced by swords) prompts investigators to seek help from another professional. The Dabiri police will then carry out the investigation of the case in collaboration with an illusionist, Vincent Walder. To the concern of the event is added the concern of the discovery of a new body that will put all of them on alert.. From then on, an unstoppable search begins in which the symbologies and numerical connections will be crucial to discover the murderer who uses illusionism in a perverse and eccentric psychological game.
The Mentalist bears the unmistakable stamp of Camilla Lackberg, whose books abound on the shelves of thrillers and best-selling crime novels. Just like Vincent Walder in the novel, the famous conjurer Henrik Faxeus comes to the aid of Lackberg to give realism to the plot. A serial killer uses illusionist processes to commit his crimes and the tandem of the book's authors is reflected in fiction. Characters and authors create a team that fits perfectly that avoids leaving anything to improvisation that could reduce the credibility of the story.
The cruelty of the conjurer
El Black nordic find everything you need in The mentalist. The novel by Lackberg and Fexeus does not lack the callousness of the genre nor the expected setting of the Nordic cold. The murderer's plan, his inventions and cruel torture methods turn each murder into horrific discoveries that only want to be solved to end all the sadism. It is especially difficult to face so much chaos and evil for a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder, as is the case of agent Dabiri.
Despair and impotence take over the pages in this thriller wild and icy. In the novel, special emphasis is placed on the fact that some human beings may be capable of committing the greatest atrocities.. Though murder is inconceivable per se, the fact that the murderer acts as a clever conjurer makes the situation even more macabre. Although Fexeus is in charge of outlining Walder's character, the joint work of two very different authors was well coordinated from the outset, and the authors have confessed this in various interviews.
That is, the characters are very well built by the two authors. Both the investigators and the killer's mind emerge as eerily real characters. Is about the possibility that evil can exist as they pose it, but also those on the side of good capable of persecuting it and fight it. The story of Mina Dabiri and Vincent Walder does not begin with the murders, but rather they have a tense past that will add more emotions to the novel.
Conclusions
The mentalist is a novel by the best-selling writer Camilla Lackberg, a benchmark of the Black Nordic. It is a realistic story, very well prepared that also has the participation of the illusionist Henrik Fexeus. They do a very orderly and coherent teamwork and create very elaborate characters whose profiles will make you uncomfortable because of the verisimilitude they convey. The story also displeases, although in a good literary sense: It is a bloody narrative that delves into the evil of the human being. So, the book is an exciting combination of crime and illusionism that transforms the investigation into an absorbing sinister game with surprises and lies.
About the authors
Camilla Lackberg was born in 1974 in Fjällbacka (Sweden). She is considered the best novel writer Black Norse of the moment Despite this, as often happens in these cases, he had graduated in Economics and worked for a short time in this field until he found literary success. In the region where he was born and raised, the action of the series The Crimes of Fjällbacka begins with The ice princess (2003), his first novel, which quickly achieved publishing success. The mentalist It is the first novel that he writes with Henrik Fexeus. She has garnered several awards in her writing career and her books are sold all over the world.
Henrik Fexeus is also Swedish and was born in 1971.. He is an expert in the world of language and non-verbal communication. Due to his communication skills, he can also be found in television interventions. He is one of the most renowned mentalists today and as a writer he has published several books within the essay genre.. His works are also sold by the millions around the world. With Camilla Lackberg he has teamed up in fiction projects The mentalist y The sect.