The circumstances of the brutal murder of Prime Minister Katrine Hagebak were so strange that every member of the investigative team was thrown into confusion. Inspector Sarah Geringen—one of the best detectives in Norway—had to admit, at the very beginning of the investigation, that for the first time in her career she was dealing with a victim who had done everything to destroy the evidence that could identify and bring the murderer to trial. Sarah came to an inexplicable conclusion: the prime minister, Katrine Hagebak, had devoted the last minutes of her life to protecting the killer’s identity.