Bergen Private Investigator Varg Veum is perplexed when two wildly different cases cross his desk at the same time. A lawyer anxious to protect her privacy asks Varg to find her sister who has disappeared with her husband seemingly without trace while a ship carrying unknown cargo is heading towards the Norwegian coast and the authorities need answers. Varg immerses himself in the investigations and it becomes clear that the two cases are linked and have unsettling - and increasingly uncanny - similarities to events that took place 36 years earlier when a woman and her saxophonist lover drove their car off a cliff in an apparent double suicide. As Varg is drawn into a complex case involving star-crossed lovers toxic waste and illegal immigrants history seems determined to repeat itself in perfect detail . . . and at terrifying cost . . .

Part of the The Varg Veum Series series.