Part of Ewert Grens, book 12
First published 2022
Detective Ewert Grens once believed serial killers didn't exist in Sweden. He built his career on this certainty, refusing cases that suggested otherwise. But now bodies appear with their blood completely drained. Others are found with every bone systematically shattered. Victims burn from unknown chemical attacks. Each crime scene challenges everything Grens thought he knew about Swedish criminality. The DNA evidence seems foolproof, yet questions multiply faster than answers. Grens himself shot himself to end everything, but the case pulls him back into a reality he never wanted to accept. The detective must confront not only Sweden's first serial killer but his own assumptions about the nature of evil in his homeland.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, detective
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: detective-protagonist, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Sweden
400 pages · Hardcover · Albert Bonniers förlag
Content warnings: violence