Rickard Petrelius

Van Veeteren's only unsolved case comes back to haunt him when the daughter of a murdered private detective comes to see him. A brutal wife killer, who went into hiding years before, has ...

Events have parallels in 1931-2. The Lucia bride goes missing. The herring factory majority owner is found dead there. Writer Erica and her cop husband investigate while also preparing for Christmas.

On the way to a romantic weekend, writer Erica and her cop husband stop in Kungshamn to investigate the possible murder of two French scuba divers, declared an accident by the coastguard. It may be related to an 1820 shipwreck.