The chilling story of an insidious serial killer and the two brilliant detectives who must try to beat him at his own game.An emaciated young man named Mikael is found wandering outside Stockholm. Thirteen years earlier, he and his younger sister went missing, presumed to be victims of Sweden’s most notorious serial killer, Jurek Walter, who is now serving a life sentence in a maximum-security psychiatric hospital. But Mikael tells the police that his sister is still alive and being held by...
THERE’S A NEW KILLER ON THE STREETS...A woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer.HE’S IN YOUR HOUSE... HE’S IN YOUR ROOMUnder pressure from the media to find the murderer, the force know there’s only one man for the job. But Harry Hole is reluctant to return to the place that almost took everything from him. Until he starts to suspect a connection between this killing and his one failed...
The contract killer.
Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you 'fix' people for a living - terminally - it's hard to get close to anyone.
The gangster's wife.
Now he's finally met the woman of his dreams. But she's his boss's wife. And Olav's just been hired to kill her.
Two very big problems.