This "must-read for fans of Nordic noir" (BookPage, starred review)
follows detectives Korner and Werner as they search for a missing
teenager and uncover the web of lies that has threatened his life--and
may prevent him from ever being found.
When fifteen-year-old Oscar Dreyer-Hoff disappears in this "masterpiece"
(Booklist, starred review), the police assume he's simply a runaway--a
typically overlooked middle child doing what teenagers do all around the
world. But his frantic family is certain that something terrible has
happened. After all, what runaway would leave behind a note that reads:
He looked around and saw the knife that had stabbed Basil Hallward. He
had cleaned it many times, till there was no stain left upon it. It was
bright and glistened. As it had killed the painter, so it would kill the
painter's work, and all that that meant. It would kill the past, and
when that was dead, he would be free.
It's not much to go on, but it's all that detectives Jeppe Kørner and
Anette Werner have. And with every passing hour, as the odds of finding
a missing person grow dimmer, it will have to be enough.