The Artist by crime writer Dag Öhrlund is just released.
Sweden’s most beloved police inspector, Ewert Truut, takes a week’s vacation, something that is very unusual. But he doesn’t make it further than the beach in Skåne county before he finds a brutally murdered and dismembered police officer.
Back in Stockholm, Ewert gets the strangest assignment of his life. He is sent in a SÄPO car to a house in the woods to find the foreign minister’s son murdered in the same way as the police in Skåne county. The case develops into one of the most unusual and disgusting investigations Truut has ever been part of, his colleagues Richard and Carolina are put in mortal danger in the hunt for the crazy murderer.