On a September day she is called to one of Linköping’s more affluent areas. A married couple have been found dead in their Jacuzzi. Their five year-old adopted daughter Ella is missing. The search becomes intense and while heavy rain clouds are watching over the city, Malin Fors and her colleagues are pulled into a case where the borders have become blurred. Between the living and the dead, between good and evil.
The investigation forces her to confront her own demons, and eventually she can’t resist the urge to let alcohol erase reality. But she knows she can’t give up. She can’t let Ella down. She needs to find her and the one who murdered her parents.
When Malin Fors arrives at the scene, the boy’s mother is sitting under a tree clinging to her limp child. Her desperate screams have faded into a shallow wail.
The police investigation is wrapped up quickly as the circumstances...
It is Autumn in Linkoping and the heavens have opened, but not even these biblical rains can wash away the blood of crimes past and present. Then the brutally-stabbed body of self-made Internet billionaire Jerry Petersson is discovered...
It is the coldest February in recent memory. In the early hours of a particularly cold night, the body of an obese man is found hanging from a lone oak tree in the middle of the withered, windswept plains of Östergötland.
The young superintendent Malin...