Rafael Gareisen

Cathrin Blake once came to Ireland from Germany to study there. She fell in love with the detective inspector Liam, had a son and worked as a police psychologist. When Liam suddenly disappeared without a trace, Cathrin lost the ground under her feet. It took a lot of strength to find her way out of this crisis. She still works as a psychologist today, albeit no longer with the police, and lives with her son Paul. She left the past behind, but then the bones of buried children and those of a grown man are found in a monastery: Liam! Suddenly the past is there again with all its unresolved, agonizing questions.

Solveig Karlsdóttir is a crime writer in Reykjavik, even a very successful one, which can be surprising, because with an average of two murders per year, Icelandic reality is not a rich source of inspiration. But Solveig has a blooming imagination. Or is it a particularly keen sense of things that are different from what they seem, things that others may not even notice?