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Grainy closed-circuit television footage shows a man walking into an Oslo bank and putting a gun to a cashier's head, he tells the young woman to count to twenty-five. When the robber doesn't get his money in time, the cashier is executed, and two million Norwegian kroner disappear without a trace. Police Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case. While Hole's girlfriend is away in Russia, an old flame decides to get in touch. Former girlfriend and struggling artist Anna Bethsen invites Hole to dinner, and he can't resist a visit. But the evening ends in an all too familiar way as Hole awakens with a thundering headache, a missing call phone, and no memory of the past twelve hours. That same morning, Anna is found shot dead in her bed, Hole begins to receive threatening e-mails.