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.
The air is quivering with heat. An unusual late-summer storm approaches Linköping, and at a mismanaged nursing home 79-year-old Konrad Karlsson is found dead, hung in the cord to his medical alarm button.
The Circumstances suggest...
The spring sunshine is beaming over Linköping and its still winter-pale inhabitants who are enjoying the weather from the pavement cafés by the town square. Swallows are circling the sky, colourful tulips are radiating from the market...
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...