By summer night aboard an expensive uninhabited yacht drifting in шхерах of Stockholm, find the drowned man in a dry clothing. The next day in the suites of rooms a man dies in the rich district of Эстермальм. How did he succeed to hang oneself on a lamp hook in an absolutely empty room with the very high ceiling, where not on what to climb? And nevertheless the commissar of police is sure: this suicide. The chain of gloomy events is headily untwisted. Strange they are related character to the violin belonging to great Paganini, and ruinous contract, struck his name. And vainly two falling in love try to find a rescue on deceitfully friendly small islands among фьордов - a passionless killer orderly following up their scent is ubiquitous and unshakable, he moves to the aim literally on dead bodies. A "contract of Paganini" of Ларса Кеплера is continuation of detective series beginning of that was fixed By a "hypnotist". And in a new thriller the terrible ball of crimes untangles already acquainted to us Йона Линна is a criminal commissar with the enigmatic past and not clear future, talented detective with appearance of filmstar and propensity to the melancholy. Novels of Ларса Кеплера became the best sellers in the whole world, they are considered the standard of the Scandinavian thriller. In particular, the authoritative magazine of Time named "Hypnotist" of one of ten most important books 2010 years in the world. Film of stage-director Лассе Халльстрема "Hypnotist" on an of the same name novel is pulled out by the Swedish cinemaacademy on a bonus "Oscar".