Someone has to die.... Henning Juul sits in a boat on a dark lake. A man with a gun sits opposite him. At the man's feet is a body that will be soon be dumped into the water. Henning knows that the same fate awaits him. And he knows that it's his own fault. Who started the fire that killed Henning's young son? How is his sister, Trine, involved? Most importantly, who can be trusted?

Ein brutaler Killer: In einem Pflegeheim wird eine Frau tot aufgefunden. Der Täter muss rasend vor Wut gewesen sein. Eine anonyme Drohung: Justizministerin Trine Juul wird der sexuellen Nötigung bezichtigt. Eine beispiellose Medienhetze beginnt. Dann, die Botschaft: Treten Sie zurück, sonst kommt alles ans Licht. Die Suche nach der Wahrheit: Henning Juul soll den Mord im Pflegeheim untersuchen, doch auch seine Schwester Trine braucht Hilfe.

"Wenn du herausfindest, wer mich verraten hat, sage ich dir, was an dem Tag passierte, als dein Sohn starb", lautet die knappe Nachricht des inhaftierten Kleinkriminellen Tore Pulli, der für einen Mord verurteilt wurde, den er nicht begangen hat. Zumindest behauptet er das, und er will, dass Reporter Henning Juul die Wahrheit herausfindet. Die Wahrheit war für Henning nie wichtiger als in diesem Zusammenhang.

Nachdem Journalist Henning Juul bei einem Wohnungsbrand seinen sechsjährigen Sohn verloren hat, kehrt er nach zwei Jahren Auszeit an seinen alten Arbeitsplatz zurück. Sein erster Auftrag führt ihn zum Mord an einer Studentin. Ihr Körper weist schreckliche Folterspuren auf. Polizeiermittler und Journalisten glauben an einen Ehrenmord. Doch Hennings Instinkt sagt etwas anderes. Aber kann er sich darauf noch verlassen?

Oslo, 2018. Former long-distance runner Sonja Nordstrøm never shows at the launch of her controversial autobiography, Always Number One. When celebrity blogger Emma Ramm visits Nordstrøm’s home later that day, she finds the door unlocked and signs of a struggle inside. A bib with the number one has been pinned to the TV. Police officer Alexander Blix is appointed to head up the missing-persons investigation, but he still bears the emotional scars of a hostage situation 19 years earlier, when he killed the father of a five-year-old girl.

Twenty-four years ago Katharina Haugen went missing. All she left behind was her husband, Martin, and a mysterious string of numbers scribbled on a piece of paper. Every year on October 9th Chief Inspector William Wisting takes out the files to the case he was never able to solve. Stares at the code he was never able to crack. And visits the husband he was never able to help. But now Martin Haugen is missing too. 

It's been 15 years since Simon Meier walked out of his house, never to be seen again. And just one day since politician Bernard Clausen was found dead at his cabin on the Norwegian coast. When Chief Inspector William Wisting is asked to investigate he soon discovers he may have found the key to solving Meier's disappearance. But doing so means he must work with an old adversary to piece together what really happened all those years ago.

Nora's daughter, Annabelle, has disappeared, last seen on her way home from a party. Gullspång's inexperienced police are wilting under the national media spotlight - and its residents desperate for answers. Stockholm DI Charlie Lager must return home to find Annabelle and then get out of town as soon as she can. Before everyone discovers the truth about her....  

A tragic past. Thirty years ago, the body of a teenage boy was found in Gullspång's lake, and his best friend vanished from her home. Paul Bergman's death was ruled a suicide; Francesca was never found. An unsolved case. Drawn back to Gullspång, Detective Inspector Charlie Lager is haunted by the strange house she knew as a child, and by the missing girl who once lived there. Convinced that the original investigation was flawed, Charlie is determined to uncover what really happened all those decades ago.  

Two days before Christmas, a young woman is found dead beneath the cliffs of the deserted village of Kalfshamarvik. Did she jump, or did something more sinister take place beneath the lighthouse and the abandoned old house on the remote rocky outcrop? With winter closing in and the snow falling relentlessly, Ari Thor Arason discovers that the victim's mother and young sister also lost their lives in this same spot, 25 years earlier....