A remote village. Seven missing children. And an investigator who cannot be trusted: This thriller has taken the breath away from over a hundred thousand readers in Italy alone. On a frigid winter night, special investigator Vogel wanders through the fog-laden forests at the edge of a village, his shirt stained with blood. A few weeks earlier, Vogel had traveled to the Alps to uncover the whereabouts of a missing girl. Thirty years prior, several children had disappeared in the surrounding woods, and there is a strong suspicion that the murderer from back then - known in the village as "The Fog Man" - has become active again. When Vogel is found, he claims to have had an accident, but the blood on his shirt is not his. A psychiatrist is called in to question him. Vogel begins to tell his story - and his account is shocking.