The first installment in Helene Tursten’s completely new series featuring the strong, smart Detective Inspector Embla Nystrom. From a age, 28-year-old Embla Nystrom continues to be plagued by chronic nightmares and racing thoughts. Though she still grows harmful fixations and makes rash decisions every once in awhile, she has learned to channel most of her stressed energy into her position as Detective Inspector in the mobile device in Gothenburg, Sweden, and into sports. A talented hunter and prize- about Hunting Video game earning Nordic welterweight, she actually is glad to be taking a vacation from her high-stress job to wait the annual moose hunt with her relatives and buddies. However when Embla arrives at her uncle’s cabin in rural Dalsland, she views an unfamiliar encounter has became a member of the group: Peter, an enigmatic youthful divorce. And she isn’t the only one to take notice. One longtime person in the hunt doesn’t pleasant the presence of an outsider and it is quick to point out that with Peter, the group’s quantity reaches thirteen, a bad omen for the week. Sure enough, a string of unsettling incidents follow, culminating in the disappearance of two guys from a neighboring band of hunters. Embla requires charge of the search, and they shortly find one of the lacking guys floating facedown in the nearby lake, his arm tightly wedged between two rocks. Precisely what she desires on her holiday. With the help of regional reinforcements, Embla delves in to the dark pasts of her fellow hunters in search of a killer.