Tanja Lorentzon

In the middle of upptakterna to the medieval week in Visby, a fire, where the near 70-year-old Frida is assumed to have perished in the flames. When such a number of murders are taking place, the trail leads Maria Wern and the police colleagues to a summer vacation village where everyone knows everyone and where the discovery of documents with Latin texts and arcane drawings will get the police to worry about attacks actually has to do with the celebration.

After intervening in a fight and then be beaten, with the Maria Wern on the investigation of a woman who was murdered in the immediate vicinity of the place where Maria was brutally beaten. The motives range from revenge for infidelity and hate crimes against homosexuals, and when the murders become more frustrated Maria of neighbors and witnesses into the longest avoid to tell what they saw. When it finally turns out that all the murder victims have been patients to the coroner's erika's new boyfriend, the psychiatrist Anders, Maria suspicions against him. But it is something that is not true ...

A ten-year-old boy disappears from a dinner in a little fishing village, while another vanishes from a refugee camp on the island. These are but the first in series of frightening events to take place on the island of Gotland, where a string of brutal murders are committed in quick succession. And what starts out as the search for a missing child, leads Maria Wern and her colleagues ever deeper into a nest of hidden agendas, personal betrayals.

Six-year-old Albin Landberg goes missing from nursery school and his corpse is later found in the sea,pumped full of sedatives. Martinsson is convinced the culprit is recently-released ...