After a fatal mistake, Vanessa Hurtig leaves the world of television and invests all her savings in a run-down basement store downtown Stockholm. With the help of her family members, she soon transforms it into a fashionable second-hand store. Just before the opening of the store, a mysterious wooden box appears outside the door, containing a beautiful, design made silk dress. Nothing reveals where it came from. The next day, Vanessa happens to see a wanted ad online, a photo of a woman who disappeared after a night out wearing exactly the same dress. While Vanessa tries to get her newly opened store up and running, get over her ex-boyfriend’s betrayal, and deal with other relationships in life, she is drawn further and further into the mystery surrounding the red dress. And when the missing woman is found dead, the connections become clearer and Vanessa finds herself in great danger. Death in a Red Dress is the first book in Lotta Luxenburg’s mystery detective series about Vanessa Hurtig.