Publisher's Synopsis
A gruesome tableau awaits Inspector Sejer in the oppressive summer heat: Bonnie Hayden and her young son Simon lie dead in a pool of blood near an old caravan on a remote piece of land. There is no sign of robbery or assault. Who would brutally stab a defenceless woman and her child? Sejer and his fellow investigator Jakob Skarre begin a hunt for the killer that will eventually lead them to a heartbreaking conclusion. Meanwhile, another mother, Mass, who is dying of cancer, confesses to her twenty-one-year-old son Eddie that he was adopted. The man who abandoned them, whom the boy has become obsessed with, is not his real father. When long-held secrets are revealed, it turns out that Mass and Bonnie have more in common than Eddie could ever have guessed...
