Mike Zetterberg lives with his wife Ylva and their daughter in a house just outside Helsingborg. One evening, Ylva isn’t home as expected after work. Mike passes it off as a drink with a work friend, but when she’s still missing the next day, he starts to worry. As Mike battles suspicion from the police and his own despair, he is unaware that Ylva is still alive, just a stone’s throw from his own home. Ylva has been drawn into a twisted plot of revenge and tragedy that leads back into her and her abductors’ shared past…
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Compulsive page-turning . . . I read it in two long sessions and if you're the sort of person who doesn't need much sleep, you'll do it in one.
Crisp and simple yet devastatingly effective, this is an unrelenting, terrifying slab of a psychological thriller which ticks all the right boxes
A graphic exploration of revenge and retribution . . . Koppel's novel is compulsive but uncomfortable reading
A supremely professional piece of work with a palpable sense of tension