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The eighth gripping thriller in Lars Kepler's bestselling series featuring Joona Linna.
 

Seventeen-year-old Jenny is abducted in broad daylight and taken to adilapidated, isolated house where she is chained and caged along with severalother girls. Their captor is unpredictable, and as wily as he is cruel: hefoils every one of their desperate attempts to escape . . . and once caught, they rarely survive their punishment.
 
Five years later, Jenny is found dead in a public park, and the police arescrambling to find a lead among the scant evidence. But Detective Joona Linnarealizes that this murder has an eerie connection to a death that was declareda suicide years before. When Mia, a seventeen-year-old orphan, goes missing, itbecomes clear to Joona that they are dealing with a serial killer—whose murderous rampage has just begun.
 
As the police close in on the killer, Mia and her fellow captives are plungedinto ever greater danger, and Joona finds himself in a seemingly impossible race against time to save their young lives.