In this fifth Inspector Sejer mystery, a little girl has vanished without a trace and Sejer must find her before it's too late.

Sonny Lofthus, in his early thirties, has been in prison for the last dozen years: serving time for crimes he didn't commit. In exchange, he gets an uninterrupted supply of heroin?and the unexpected stream of fellow prisoners seeking out his uncanny abilities to soothe and absolve. His addiction started when his father committed suicide rather than be exposed as a corrupt cop, and now Sonny is the center of a vortex of corruption: prison staff, police,...

A married couple, Reinhardt and Kristine Ris, are out for a Sunday walk when they discover the body of a boy and see a man limping away. Inspectors Konrad Sejer and Jakob Skarre begin to make inquiries in the little town of Solberglia. But then another boy disappears, and an explanation seems more remote than ever. Meanwhile the Ris's marriage starts to unravel as Reinhardt becomes obsessed with the tragic events and his own part in them.

Academic advisor Dr. Lars Helland is found dead in his office chair at the University of Copenhagen. In his bloody lap is a copy of one of his postgraduate student's thesis on the saurian origin of birds. The autopsy suggests the professor was killed in a very ingenious way so Police Superintendent Soren Marhauge is brought in to investigate. Everyone is a suspect, and as the investigation progresses, the detective is presented with the greatest professional...

On the same day as her mother's death, biology PhD candidate Marie Skov learns that her mentor Kristian Storm has been found hanged in his office. Although the death is widely regarded as a suicide, Skov is skeptical. Skov joins forces with former police detective Søren Marhauge, who shares her suspicions about Storm's death. Together, they learn that Storm's on-site work in Guinea-Bissau was marred by intimidation, sabotaged data, and the suspicious...

Konrad Sejer must face down his memories and fears as he struggles to determine why the corpses of troubled young men keep surfacing in local lakes. As Sejer begins to feel his age weigh on him, he wonders if he has the strength to pursue the elusive explanations for human evil.