For fans of Jo Nesbo, Ian Rankin, and Michael Connelly, the third
Inspector Mislan thriller takes the inspector to a netherworld of
vicious crimes against women.
In this new thriller, Mislan and Detective Sergeant Johan are called to
the scene of an ongoing investigation by D11, the Sexual & Child Abuse
Investigation Division, that involves a series of rapes of successful
young women.
What immediately jumps out as D11's Inspector Sherry investigates the
first case is that the attack was filmed with a video camera. The
perpetrator, gloved and masked, had gained access to the victim's
apartment and was there with a cameraman, standing over her, when she
woke in her bedroom. When the video appears on UTube with the legend
that it shows her "salvation," the shame of it drives her to suicide.
The second case involving the same M.O. has left a friend of the rape
victim murdered at the scene, and that brings in the team from Special
Investigations.
Forced by their superiors to combine efforts, with Sherry in the lead,
Mislan struggles to rein in his maverick impulses. But the video of the
second assault is posted online and then still another makes the news,
leading to mounting public alarm. With pressure from above to close the
case quickly, the two inspectors have no choice but to find the way to
work together and uncover the trail that will lead them to the shadowy
figure who calls himself the Emancipatist.
