The Nightmare

Összefoglaló

On a summer night, the dead body of a woman is found aboard an abandoned pleasure boat drifting around in the Stockholm archipelago. Her lungs are filled with brackish water, but there are no traces of this water on her clothes or other parts of her body.
"She drowned, Joona," says the professor of forensic medicine.
"Drowned?"
The professor nods and smiles. "She drowned on board a floating boat," he says.
"Probably someone found her in the sea and pulled her on board the boat."
"If I thought that’s what happened, I wouldn’t be taking up your time," says the professor.

The next day a man is found dead in his state apartment in Stockholm. The man is hanging from a noose from the lamp-hook in the ceiling. How did it happen? The room has a high ceiling and there isn't one single piece of furniture to climb on in the room. Nevertheless, Detective Inspector Joona Linna is convinced that it is suicide.

Of course he is right, but that doesn’t close the case. In fact it's only the prelude to a dizzingly intense and dangerous course of events. Certain things are never finished, even when you're dead...