The Stranger (Patrik Hedstrm, #4)

A string of suspicious deaths points to a potential serial killer who has turned his eye toward Fjllbacka and her dark forests, where two children vanished decades before.

A local woman is killed in a tragic car crash, but it isnt a clear-cut drunk driving case. The victims blood contains high alcohol levels, yet she rarely drank a drop. Meanwhile, a new television series begins shooting in Fjllbacka, and as cameras shadow the stars every move, tempers start to flare. When a drunken party ends with an unpopular contestants murder, all eyes turn to the cast and crew. Could there be a murderer among them? The ratings spike as the country tunes in to a real life murder mystery.

Detective Patrik Hedstrom finds himself increasingly unable to focus on the strange circumstances of the first case, but what if that holds the key to a series of other unsolved cases across Sweden? Under the unforgiving media spotlight, Patrik tackles his most challenging investigation yet.