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. At the same time, both Ewert and his colleagues have problems on a private level. Richard realizes that he has gone from ashes to fire with his new relationship, Carolina discovers that the man she loves is a lie. Ewert’s wife Rebecca becomes pregnant, but when Ewert’s crazy daughter, the murderer Therese, unexpectedly shows up, hope soon turns to despair. How much can Ewert take?
The surly but warm-hearted animal lover Ewert Truut, as always, faces new, tough challenges in the eleventh book in the series.