A little girl disappears a few weeks before Christmas, and suspicion falls on the last person she was seen with: the mentally disabled teenage boy who gave her a ride home after school. When a second child disappears and a police officer is found dead, tensions in the small town of Stromstad reach an all-time high. Detective Inspector Embla Nystrom has just returned to work after her recent brush with a killer. Hunting for the missing children, Embla thinks of the case that has been haunting her for years: the disappearance of her childhood best friend. Could the incidents be linked? -- adapted from jacket.

"First published in Swedish under the title Sandgrav in 2016"--T.p. verso.