Winner of the Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year 2021 (Swedish Crime Writers' Academy) Winner
of the Storytel Award for Best Suspense Novel 2021 Winner of the Adlibris Award for Best
Suspense Novel 2021 Forensic pathologist Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live when he
asks Rebecka Martinsson to investigate a murder that has long since passed the statute of
limitations. A body found in a freezer at the home of the deceased alcoholic Henry Pekkari
has been identified as a man who disappeared without a trace in 1962: the father of Swedish
Olympic boxing champion Börje Ström. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case -
she has enough to worry about. But how can she ignore a dying man's wish? When the post-mortem
confirms that Pekkari too was murdered Rebecka has a red-hot investigation on her hands. But
what does it have to do with the body kept in his freezer for decades? Meanwhile the city of
Kiruna is being torn down and moved a few kilometres east to make way for the mine that has
been devouring the city from below. With the city in flux the tentacles of organized crime are
slowly taking over . . . Fragile yet fierce Rebecka Martinsson returns in a spellbinding
addition to the Arctic Murders series now a Walter Presents drama for television. Translated
from the Swedish by Frank Perry
