The slaying of a hotel developer in the Swedish mountains casts a shadow over a blissful vacation paradise in a chilling novel of suspense by the acclaimed author of Hidden in Shadows.
On Easter weekend, a guest at a luxury ski lodge in ?re is stabbed to death in her plush suite.
She’s Charlotte Wretlind, a property developer who planned to restore a nearby mountain hotel to its long-gone glory days. It was not a random attack.
It was an act of pure aggression leveled against a woman with plenty of enemies.
As the murder spreads panic among tourists and ?re residents alike, Detective Inspectors Hanna Ahlander and Daniel Lindskog face a shady staff, a dogged press, and multiple suspects.
But the case takes a turn when a cleaning woman from the lodge is found strangled to death in the woods—and Charlotte’s son goes missing.
Hanna and Daniel plunge into a winding investigation tangled with damaged relationships, corrupt power players, betrayal, and, for Daniel, a personal struggle to process the memories of a painful past.
As more troubling questions arise, one thing is certain: ?re’s killing season has only just begun.
