Police commissioner Evert Beckström begins investigating the murder of attorney Thomas Eriksson, well known for cooperating with the local mafia. And exactly one week earlier, two more cases ended up on the commissioner’s desk. The first concerned a pet taken from a careless owner after a neighbor’s report—an act prompted by threats of death to the owner unless she withdrew the statement. In the second case, according to an anonymous witness, a high-born aristocrat was beaten with a catalogue from the London auction house Sotheby’s in a parking lot—just a hundred meters from the apartments of the King of Sweden. With his team of experienced assistants, the commissioner finds that these crimes have far more in common than the area where everything happened. At the center of criminal interest were rare works of art with a rich history, belonging to the family of the last Russian emperor—and ending up in Sweden as a result of marriage between people of special royal blood. The stakes in the pursuit of these values were so high that everyone deceived everyone. Even Beckström—the justice man with a sword—could not resist the temptation to grab a prize, and in parallel with the investigation he began to play his own game…