A serial rapist is on the loose in Gothenburg. The first girl he
attacked has survived, but he killed the second one. For Erik Winter
and his team, it brings back memories of a previous rapist. It reminds
Winter of a similar case five years earlier. Just shortly after the
second attack, one of Winter's team members, Fredrik Halders, loses his
ex-wife in a hit and run accident.
There is a commonality in the two rape victims who died. They had both
been strangled, and both had been wearing a belt, which was missing.
Sure about the commonality, Winter digs deeper. He discovers photos of
the two dead girls taken in exactly the same place. But how does the
third victim tie in?
Another young woman is murdered. She managed to call her home using her
mobile phone before she was killed, so the police have the sounds of
her murderer on her answer machine. A technician is able to eliminate
the noises surrounding the voice and determines that the murderer is
saying "Never again." But, what significance does that have?
Author Ake Edwardson pulls together an exciting story that starts off
very slowly, and maintains that pace for a major portion of the murder
mystery, but has an adrenalin filled rush as it drives to the climax. A
very good, and thoroughly enjoyable read.
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