Today Lars Kepler’s name is synonymous with the perfect Scandinavian thriller.
In a boarding school for difficult-to-raise teenage girls, bloody murders take place. One of the students and a nurse are found dead—at both victims their hands are tightly pressed against their faces, as if they were trying to hide their eyes from the killer. Fear and suspicion take hold of the institution. Commissioner Jona Linna is brought in for the investigation—though only as an observer: he is himself under an official investigation. But can that stop a real Superman when the lives of children are at stake?