It is an unusually hot summer in Gothenburg and in the course of a few weeks, two young women are found murdered in a park. Do these two murders have anything to do with an unsolved murder of another young woman five years ago?
While DC Winter is investigating a series of brutal assaults on male students, the police receive reports that small children have been contacted by a man with a video camera. Winter senses a connection between the two investigations, and when a four-year-old boy disappears from a playground, a race against time begins.
Sometime during World War II, the Swedish fisherman John Osvald mysteriously disappears on a trawler off the Scottish coast. Now, sixty years later, his son Axel also seems to have disappeared during a trip to Scotland.
