After Andrew Melling, Karag’s sworn enemy, disappears, the boy’s life doesn’t become any calmer. A criminal appears in the city who commits a series of mysterious thefts. The police are baffled: the thief gets into places a normal person would never be able to reach. Karag and his friends realize that the kidnapper might be someone like them—and might be able to turn into an animal or an insect… But when Karag discovers traces of the thief, he becomes genuinely frightened: the evidence points to his best friend Holly as the culprit. Could it be true? And what should Karag do now? The third book in the series “Children of the Forest.” Winner of the prestigious Leipziger Lesekompass literary award. A bestseller according to the German magazine Spiegel.