The psychological thriller debut of No 1 bestselling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg.

Returning to her hometown following the funeral of her parents, writer Erica Falck finds a community around the brink of tragedy. The death of her childhood friend, Alex, is merely the beginning. Her wrists slashed, her body frozen within an ice-cold shower, it seems, initially, that she has taken her personal life.

Erica conceives a memoir about the beautiful but remote Alex, one that will overcome her writer’s block as well seeing that answer questions about their own past. While her interest grows to an obsession, regional detective Patrik Hedstrom is definitely following his own suspicions about the situation. But it can be only when they start working together that the reality begins to emerge about this small town having a deeply disturbing previous…