A remote village. Seven missing children. And an investigator who cannot be trusted: This thriller has left more than a hundred thousand readers breathless in Italy alone. On a freezing winter night, Roman special investigator Vogel wanders through the fog-covered forests at the edge of a village, his shirt stained with blood. A few weeks earlier, Vogel had traveled from Rome to the Italian Alps to clarify the whereabouts of a missing girl. Thirty years prior, several children had disappeared in the surrounding forests, 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 does not belong to him. A psychiatrist is called in to question him. Vogel begins to tell his story - and.