The beautiful fashion model Liss lives in Amsterdam, but when she learns that her sister—the closest person to her—has disappeared without a trace, she rushes to Oslo and tries, before the results of the official investigation even arrive, to find out who the well-to-do woman might have crossed. She is a psychiatrist with marriage and a dissertation on teenage psychological trauma in her near plans. Liss will have to make many unexpected and terrible discoveries before she comes close to the answer and realizes what role the Phoenician immortalized in T. S. Eliot’s poem played in this tragic story—whom Sibyl had foretold “death by water.”
About the author
Torkil Damhaug, trained as a psychiatrist, debuted in literature in 1996 and immediately attracted attention. Critics are generous with praise for Damhaug, unanimously considering him the leading Norwegian detective writer. He is currently the author of six novels, recognized as a master of the psychological thriller, and his books are published in various European languages.