The tiny Swedish island of Sandhamn has always been a haven for lawyer
Nora Linde. With trouble brewing in her marriage, she finds its comforts
more welcome than ever, even in the depths of winter. That is, until her
two young sons trip across a severed arm in the woods.
The boys' gruesome discovery will once again connect Nora with her
childhood friend Thomas Andreasson, now a local police detective. When
the limb is identified as belonging to a twenty-year-old woman who
disappeared without a trace months earlier, what had been a missing
persons case takes on a whole new urgency.
Nora and Thomas delve deeply into the woman's final hours, each of them
wrestling not only with the case but with the private demons it awakens
in them. As they do, they'll find themselves drawn into the history of
Sandhamn and the tensions that have been simmering just below the
surface for more than a hundred years.