A magnificent crime thriller by Norway’s Queen of detectives, Karin Fossum, about lies and secrets.
A six-year-old girl has gone missing. Some suspicious person took her away in a car, and the reader freezes, waiting for a terrible crime. But events take an unexpected turn: by a small forest lake, the police find the body of another girl—fifteen years old. In a small town where everyone knows everyone, in normal, at first glance, families hide terrible secrets. The number of suspects grows… Lieutenant Konrad Sæyer, as always, leads the investigation…