Seventeen years ago, William Wisting led the investigation into one of Norway s most widely publicised criminal cases.

The young Cecilia Linde had been killed, and public outrage demanded a swift response.

Now it is discovered that evidence was planted and the wrong man convicted.

With the convicted man free, Wisting faces jail if he cannot discover the truth about the planted evidence.

He is suspended and the media smell blood.

To discover what really happened he must work alone and undercover, assisted only by his journalist daughter Line.

William Wisting has spent his life hunting criminals, but now it is he who is hunted…

Winner of The Glass Key for best Nordic crime novel