Three-time winner of the Swedish Crime Writer's Award!

While carefree teenagers celebrate the holidays, tragedy waits to pierce the heady days of summer.It is late when nineteen-year-old Jeanette bids goodbye to her friends and sets off for home. She takes a shortcut through the park...Next morning the police come to question Jeanette about her rape, but she has already washed away all traces of the crime...

While carefree teenagers celebrate the holidays, tragedy waits to pierce the heady days of summer.

It is late when nineteen-year-old Jeanette bids goodbye to her friends and sets off for home. She takes a shortcut through the park... Next morning the police come to question Jeanette about her rape, but she has already washed away all traces of the crime.

When a second rape ends in murder, Chief Inspector Erik Winter starts a manhunt for a killer with a very specific method which reminds him of a case from many years ago...