Quote from People magazine GALA: "This Lofoten thriller is not only about murders, but also about wounds that do not heal and people who remain human despite all losses and disappointments. Commissioner Rasmussen and his colleague Luca Ferrari are an investigator duo to fall in love with." Exciting, gripping, icy! The new investigator duo Karl Rasmussen and Luca Ferrari awaits you with their first thrilling case!

The book: Death has countless faces. I have gazed into nearly all of them. I was untouchable and heroic until my partner was murdered. His death ripped everything away from me: my job in the Oslo homicide department, the belief in my invulnerability, and my story with Frida, the police chief. Ignoring my protests, she transferred me to the peaceful Lofoten Islands to help me get back on my feet. There, she assigned me to lead a small station. But the calm turns into a nightmare. Suddenly, a body emerges from the icy waters of the North Sea. Murdered. Further bloodshed reveals a murderous secret. As we blindly pursue the perpetrator, he leaves a trail of destruction that points to religious madness. No one suspects how close he has already come to us. He is the storm that tears us apart and drives me beyond all limits, until I have only one thing in mind: his death! The first case for Karl Rasmussen and Luca Ferrari on the Norwegian Lofoten Islands.