A dazzling, multi-award-winning mystery from the 'finest crime writer in Sweden' (David Lagercrantz)
A farmhouse mysteriously goes up in flames with someone trapped inside and a community is never the same in the aftermath—both a page-turning whodunit and a deeply touching coming-of-age story by one of Sweden's top criminologists
"When the body of a young woman is discovered in an incinerated farmhouse, resolution was swift: It was murder, her boyfriend did it, case closed. But for the boyfriend’s nephew, Isak; the arresting officer, Vidar Jörgensson; and the entire community of Marbäck, closure is a myth about to be shattered — spectacularly."—New York Times, Best Crime Novels of the Year (So Far)
A Best Mystery and Thriller of 2024 So Far (BookPage)
