Kommissar Erik Winter ermittelt in einem grausigen Doppelmord, der sein ganzes psychologisches Geschick erfordert, erst recht, als der offensichtlich geistesgestörte Mörder beginnt, ihn in den Fall zu verwickeln.
From the three-time winner of the Swedish Crime Writers' Award.
A couple are found murdered in their flat in Gothenburg their bodies symbolically arranged in a mysterious and grotesque fashion. As Winter follows the trail of clues into the cult world of the gothic he becomes enmeshed in a riddle of nightmares where he must untangle good from evil and sun from shadow.