Detective Inspector Konrad Sejer and Police Officer Karlsen have been
called to the home of a missing six year old girl. Fortunately the
child returned home a few hours later. Sometime after that, Sejer
received a call from the mother who told him that the daughter had
opened up after the police had left. She had seen a naked woman lying
perfectly still by a lake up on the mountain.
Sejer and Police Officer Skarre find the body of an 18 - 20 year old
woman, just as the girl had said. There seems to be no evidence at the
scene. Sejer is sure that she wasn't there earlier in the day, because
some boys searching for the girl had not reported anything here. By midnight the girl had been identified by her parents. She was only fifteen.
A witness saw the girl going to a person with a motorcycle. Could this
be the same person seen riding down the mountain away from the crime
scene? Could it have been her boyfriend? Why had a hitchhiker
persuaded one of the witnesses that the car he had seen was red? Could
the ex of the mother of the victim also be in the picture?
Sejer is surprised when the pathologist tells him that the teen was
living on borrowed time. She had a malignant tumour in her liver.
Later her school bag is found in a shed behind the boyfriend's house.
This definitely puts him in the frame.
Can Sejer prove that the boyfriend is innocent? If he is innocent, then who is the killer?
Author Karin Fossum's murder mystery is intense and fast paced. A thoroughly enjoyable read, and hard to put down.
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