Parallex

A continuation of “The Diary of My Disappearance,” the best Swedish crime novel of 2017.

The eighteen-year-old charming Samuel Stenberg accidentally disrupts a major drug deal—and now he has to go into hiding.

By the will of fate, Samuel ends up in a quiet place on the Stockholm archipelago, where he begins courting the bedridden disabled son of a wealthy family.

Soon, strange things start happening in the odd old house. One night, Samuel wakes up to loud sounds and screams. Soon, the body of a young drug dealer is washed ashore.

Police officer Manfred and his colleagues are called to the scene.

Manfred Ols-son, trying to survive a family tragedy, throws himself headlong into the investigation. After some time, another corpse is found in the water. The case becomes more and more complicated and tangled, and Manfred can see no other way out than to ask for help from his former colleague—police psychologist Hanna Lagerlind-Schön.

Trying to uncover the dark secret, they get on Samuel’s trail. Only Samuel has vanished somewhere.

Now Manfred Ols-son must solve chilling crimes to expose evil hiding behind the mask of virtue…