V horském jezeře je nalezena zavražděná baletka. Opodál stojí prázdný fotoaparát, v jehož čočce je vyryté číslo. O pár dní později najde recepční pochybného hotýlku v jednom z pokojů mrtvého saxofonistu. Stopy ukazují na stejného pachatele, který zanechává policii podivné vzkazy. Detektiv Holger Munch proto k případu přizve zkušenou vyšetřovatelku Miu Krügerovou. Společně musí zastavit vyšinutého vraha dřív, než si vyhlédne další oběť.
The thrilling follow-up to Samuel Bjork s internationally bestselling I'm Traveling Alone , which The Wall Street Journal calls tense and smartly constructed When a troubled teenager disappears from an orphanage and is found murdered, her body arranged on a bed of feathers, veteran investigator Holger Munch and his team are called into the case. Star investigator Mia Kruger, on temporary leave while she continues to struggle with her own demons, jumps back on the team and dives headfirst into this case: just in time to decode the clues in a disturbing video of the victim before she was killed, being held prisoner like an animal in a cage. Meanwhile, Munch s daughter, Miriam, meets an enticing stranger at a party a passionate animal rights activist who begins to draw her into his world and away from her family. Munch, Kruger, and the team must hunt down the killer before he can strike again in this sophisticated, intricately plotted psychological thriller by the newest phenomenon in international crime fiction."