Cilla Börjlind

As always in this series, the complex story captivated me from the first to the last page.

A prosecutor who was going on vacation with her husband and teenage daughter was killed by a car bomb. Mette Olsäter's team immediately starts looking for the perpetrator. For Mette, this will be the last case before her retirement. Marius, an old friend of Mette's, also works with the team.
The suspicion of terrorist immigrants quickly falls, only Olivia and Lisa have a different opinion. When combing through case files, they come across Lukas, who may still have an old score to settle with the prosecutor. Olivia meets him and cannot imagine him as the perpetrator. But the noose around Lukas is getting tighter and tighter.

Meanwhile, Tom is with Luna in Thailand with his half-sister. He's very withdrawn and still can't get over the fact that he murdered someone. One day he meets a woman in a wheelchair who asks him to find a man whose name she does not know but has a photo with one word on it. Tom goes to the north of Thailand in search of this man. He has to overcome many obstacles, gets injured and has to deal with a drug lord.
When he finally finds the man, he realizes that he is a pedophile. Because Tom hasn't been heard from for a long time, not only Luna and his half-sister are worried, but also Mette, Olivia and Abbas.

Soon everyone involved has to realize that the incidents in Sweden and Thailand are linked.

I'm always fascinated how the authors can weave various human and political tragedies/events into an exciting crime novel. This time the focus is on pedophilia and the opium trade, but the Metoo movement has also found a place in it.… (mais)