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A lawyer, an ex-con, and his nephew team up to solve a grisly murder in this explosive crime novel by internationally bestselling Swedish author Jens Lapidus. Emelie: a newly minted lawyer at a polished law firm. Teddy: an ex-con trying to stay on the right side of the law as he goes about his job as the firm's fixer and special investigator. Nikola: Teddy's wayward nephew who is about to make the same mistakes he once did. They don't know it yet, but the three are about to be entangled in a snarly web with deep connections to Stockholm's underworld.When an alarm is triggered, a security guard is called to a house out on Vrmdo, an island in Stockholm's archipelago. What awaits him isn't a regular break-in, but an unidentifiable body: someone has been slaughtered in the house.