Alexander Blix’s daughter, Iselin, was killed. He spent eight months in prison for killing her murderer before getting acquitted.
Now, he is out prison, but also out of the police force and it’s fair to say he is feeling lost.
One day, he receives a phone call from a man asking if he received his letter. Blix’s case was widely publicized and ever since, he has been receiving many letters from people. He disregards majority of them as junk and simply throws them away.
However, what the caller says in the phone call chills Blix to the bone. He returns to the recycling bin and finds the letter. When he opens it, he sees a photo of Elisabeth Eie, a mother who has been missing, presumed dead, for more than two years.
When Blix was a police officer, he was investigating the disappearance of Elisabeth Eie.
Something that the caller says on the phone makes Blix think that it’s not a hoax and that there could be more bodies.
The phone calls escalate and it appears that the caller knows a lot about Blix’s personal life. The police want nothing to do with Blix and tell him to keep away, but it appears that he can’t.
Meanwhile, Emma Ramm, a former journalist, is also trying to find another pursuit in life. When a teenage girl, Carmen Prytz, calls her, asking to look into her stepfather’s case, Emma is torn. She decided to quit journalism, and yet, something is pulling her back towards her old profession.
It would appear that Blix and Ramm can only rely on each other to solve these cases. Can they do it?
I simply LOVE this series.
I got really sucked into the story, especially finding out about Blix’s horrific childhood experiences. He’s been through so much already and then to lose a child, it’s like a punch to the gut. I really felt for him throughout the book.
As I was reading the book, one question kept popping into my head: what makes a good mother? This book really focuses on the topic of parenthood and how people raise and treat their children.
It is the fifth book in the Blix and Ramm series, but it’s the best one so far! I definitely recommend it.