"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beartown and A Man Called Ove, hailed as "a writer of astonishing depth [with] the remarkable ability to make you understand the feelings of each of a dozen different characters" (The Washington Times), a heart-wrenching story of how loyalty, friendship, and love carry a town through its darkest days. After everything that the citizens of Beartown have gone through, they are struck yet another blow...

When a young girl's body is pulled out of the harbor in the small Swedish resort town of Fjallbacka, Det. Patrik Hedstr?m becomes the lead investigator as he struggles with lazy and inept colleagues and an even remoter-than-usual boss. It's his grim task to discover who could be behind the murder of the child both he and his partner Erica knew well.

The disappearance of the four year old Linnai from the farm near Fjällbacki resembles a tragic event from thirty years ago. From the same place a smll girl died, whose body was soon found in a nearby lake. Two thirteen year olds confessed to the murder, then they canceled it, but th court found them guilty, although they were not put in prison as juveniles. One of them then lived quietly in Fjällbacki. The second came back years later as the famous...

Na tydzień przed świętami Martin Mohlin z komisariatu ulega namowom swojej narzeczonej, aby wziąć udział w rodzinnym przyjęciu. Zgodnie z wolą patriarchy rodu Rubena, członkowie rodziny Liljecronas zbierają się na niewielkiej wyspie Valon, położonej w sąsiedztwie Fjallbacki. Z powodu zamieci śnieżnej połączenie z lądem zostaje zerwane i kiedy Ruben nagle osuwa się na ziemię podczas świątecznej kolacji, Martin musi interweniować....

Erica returns to work after her pregnancy is over. Now her husband Patrik takes care of his daughter Maja. But after finding the body of Erik Frankel, a historian specialized in the Second World War, Patrik must divide his time between child care and investigating the crime. Erica finds the diaries of her mother's youth, and also an antique Nazi medal. Before the death of Erik Frankel, Erica had visited the historian to obtain information about the...