This must-read for fans of Nordic noir ( BookPage , starred review) follows detectives Korner and Werner as they search for a missing teenager and uncover the web of lies that has threatened his life--and may prevent him from ever being found.
And with every passing hour, as the odds of finding a missing person grow dimmer, it will have to be enough..
It\'s not much to go on, but it\'s all that detectives Jeppe K rner and Anette Werner have.
It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.
As it had killed the painter, so it would kill the painter\'s work, and all that that meant.
It was bright and glistened.
He had cleaned it many times, till there was no stain left upon it.
After all, what runaway would leave behind a note that reads: He looked around and saw the knife that had stabbed Basil Hallward.
But his frantic family is certain that something terrible has happened.
When fifteen-year-old Oscar Dreyer-Hoff disappears in this masterpiece ( Booklist , starred review), the police assume he\'s simply a runaway--a typically overlooked middle child doing what teenagers do all around the world.
This must-read for fans of Nordic noir ( BookPage , starred review) follows detectives Korner and Werner as they search for a missing teenager and uncover the web of lies that has threatened his life--and may prevent him from ever being found
