Part of Ewert Grens, book 4
First published 2008
Winter grips Stockholm with brutal cold. Detective Ewert Grens sits at his desk surrounded by thirty-four unsolved cases while his beloved Anni lies gravely ill. Then workers discover a woman's body in a culvert beneath St. Göran's Hospital. Grens must set aside everything else to investigate. At the same time, forty-three abandoned children speaking a foreign language appear in the police station lobby. His colleague Mariana Hermansson gets pulled into a devastating criminal investigation that reaches beyond Sweden's borders. Two strange cases demand solutions. The trail leads Grens and his team into Stockholm's underground tunnels, where they hunt a killer in a hidden world. Below the city streets, people live their daily lives in darkness, creating a community the police never knew existed.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, detective
Vibes: dark, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: detective-story, hidden-world, police-investigation
Setting: Stockholm, St. Göran's Hospital
Period: Winter
352 pages · Paperback · Pocketförlaget