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 the hottest summer anyone can recall and Linköping is plagued by a sweltering heatwave and raging forest fires.
A teenage girl is found naked and bleeding in a city park, without any recollection of what has happened. A grisly discovery is made...
On an early morning in May a young man is found dead in a ditch next to Göta Kanal. He is naked, but the body bears no visible traces of violence and a strange silence prevails as Malin Fors and her colleagues arrive at the scene. It is as if all voices...