The evil of the past casts its shadow over the present. Thirty years have passed since Sofie Rudberg disappeared without a trace. She had just started high school, was popular, adored – and hated? Her disappearance shook Fjällbacka and for a long time fear characterised the idyllic west coast community. Now the police suddenly make a macabre discovery. The question is whether they have finally found the dead Sofie. The investigation that follows turns life upside down for all those who have tried to move on. Patrik Hedström and his colleagues at Tanumshede police station are under a lot of pressure, while author Erica Falck is drawn into the case. And someone is prepared to do anything to prevent the truth from being revealed. In the twelfth book in the Fjällbacka series, Camilla Läckberg consolidates her position as one of our greatest crime writers.