Håkan Nesser

When two men are brutally murdered in Kaalbringen, Chief Inspector Van Veeteren, holidaying nearby, is summoned to assist the local police. They can find no link between the victims, but when a brilliant young detective goes missing, Van Veeteren thinks she may have discovered the link!

In the dead of night a drunk driver smashes his car into a young man. He abandons the body at the side of the road, but the incident will set in motion a chain of events which will change his life forever. Soon Chief Inspector Van Veeteren, now retired from the Maardam police force, will face his greatest trial yet as someone close to him is, inexplicably, murdered.

Teacher Jack Mitter stumbles into the bathroom one morning and finds the body of his wife floating in the bath. He has no memory of attacking her and only when sentenced and locked up in an institution for the criminally insane does he have a flash of insight.