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Mia Kruger has returned to the island of Hitra where she once came to end her own life. Having reconciled with her twin sisters death, she no longer harbours a wish to die. But the challenges of her work have taken a toll, and to Holger Munchs discontent, she has decided to leave the police force once and for all.

But when Mia is approached by 11-year-old Sofia, the investigator inside her is awakened. Sofia, having heard the famous Mia now lives on her island, enlists the former detective to find out what happened to her best friend Jonathan who disappeared three years earlier.

When a young girl is found brutally murdered with Jonathans name next to her in blood, it seems the cases are connected. Calling in Munch to join the investigation, the pair are reunited to solve the case of a serial killer, this time faced with all the challenges that being on a rural, isolated island entails.

As tensions start to build between the local inhabitants of Hitra, Mia and Munch must navigate not only stormy seas but a maze of dead-end leads and tense relationships before ultimately finding the elusive killer. Smarter, faster and more suspenseful than ever, international bestseller Samuel Bjrk is back with his most satisfying mystery to date.

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Gives Jo Nesbo a run for his money money Sunday Express
The latest Norwegian crime-writing sensation Sunday Times
This is their fifth case and underlines how captivating they are: the flawed genius and her subtle minder... [a] tantalising mystery Daily Mail
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The latest instalment in the Munch and Krüger series from the bestselling author of Im Travelling Alone.

Shed once come here to kill herself but now Mia Kruger has returned to the picturesque island of Hitra to escape from the violence and madness of her life as a police investigator.

But when she is approached by 11-year-old Sofia asking for help in finding her missing friend, her old instincts are awakened. Three years ago, Jonathan disappeared without a trace on his way home from Sofias house. Mia is just beginning to re-examine the cold case when another crime rocks the island: a teenage girl is found brutally murdered, with Jonathans name written in her blood.

Knowing that the two cases are connected but unable to make the link, Mia calls in her former boss Holger Munch to join the investigation. When other bodies are discovered, tensions build in the apparently idyllic community, and Kruger and Munch must quickly learn to navigate the deadly maze of the island before the elusive killer claims their next victim.

With characteristic cunning and psychological depth, Samuel Bjork pulls back a communitys curtain of respectability to reveal the dark web of treachery and deceit that lies behind it.
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