On a September day she is called to one of Linköping’s more affluent areas. A married couple have been found dead in their Jacuzzi. Their five year-old adopted daughter Ella is missing. The search becomes intense and while heavy rain clouds are watching over the city, Malin Fors and her colleagues are pulled into a case where the borders have become blurred. Between the living and the dead, between good and evil.
The investigation forces her to confront her own demons, and eventually she can’t resist the urge to let alcohol erase reality. But she knows she can’t give up. She can’t let Ella down. She needs to find her and the one who murdered her parents.
In the first part, The Devil’s Scent, Malin Fors has left Linköping for the swarming metropolis of Bangkok. A city full of scents, colours, sounds and tastes. But also corruption, violence and death.
Malin is on the run....
The spring sunshine is beaming over Linköping and its still winter-pale inhabitants who are enjoying the weather from the pavement cafés by the town square. Swallows are circling the sky, colourful tulips are radiating from the market...
In The Executioner’s Kiss, Malin is back in Linköping after a long time as liaison officer in the metropolis of Bangkok. She has managed to keep herself sober, but is restless...