Description
In the first thaw of spring the body of a young woman surfaces in the River Torne in the far north of Sweden. Rebecka Martinsson is working as a prosecutor in nearby Kiruna. Her sleep has been disturbed by haunting visions of a shadowy, accusing figure. Could the body belong to the ghost in her dreams?
Joining forces once again with Police Inspector Anna-Maria Mella, Rebecka is drawn into an investigation that focuses on old rumours about the disappearance of a plane carrying supplies for the Wehrmacht in 1943.
Shame and secrecy shroud the locals memories of the war, with Sweden's early collaboration with the Germans still a raw wound. And on the windswept shore of a frozen lake waits a killer who will kill again to keep the past buried forever beneath half a century of silent ice and snow.
The physical courage of Martinsson is remarkable, and her at times uneasy collaboration with Inspector Mella two women confronting murderous criminals is dogged by an unflinchingly chauvinistic police establishment.
