Gotesberg's Lowander Hospital has gone dark, the backup generator hasn't kicked in
and a nurse is missing. When the security guard and the police arrive,
the missing nurse is found draped across the generator, dead and the ICU
nurse claims that she has seen a ghost of a former nurse who she claims
is the murderer.
Superintendent Sven Andersson and Detective Inspector Irene Huss not
only have a strangled nurse on their hands, but a patient on a
respirator died as a result of the power outage. That evening one of
the other nurses doesn't show up for her shift. When Huss checks at the
missing nurse's flat she is not there either. It appears that she
planned leaving for just a short time as her cat was still in her flat
as was her passport.
Huss begins to wonder if the patient who died wasn't the intended victim
rather than the nurse. Did the nurse have to die because she might
have recognised the killer? It isn't long afterwards that the body of
the only potential witness is found in a culvert. She had been
murdered, too. A week after the initial murders, the body of the
missing nurse is discovered; she too has been murdered.
Author Helene Tursten hints at possible serial killers in this novel,
but it isn't until the final chapter that the reader comes face-to-face
with a brutal killer when an attempt is made on Huss' life. A good,
intense read.
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