An old flame who Ester met a quarter of a century before while fleeing the Nazis comes back from a presumed death. The matter of where he has been and some other new information forces Ester to pit her wits to survive once again. A much-anticipated contending with darkest history from the Nordic Noir godfather.

One of the fathers of the Nordic Noir genre, Kjell Ola Dahl was born in 1958 in Gjøvik. He made his debut in 1993, and has since published thirteen novels, the most prominent of which is a series of police procedurals cum psychological thrillers featuring investigators Gunnarstranda and Frølich. In 2000 he won the Riverton Prize for The Last Fix and he won both the prestigious Brage and Riverton Prizes for The Courier in 2015. His work has been published in 14 countries, and he lives in Oslo.