An unusual investigator-duo: brusque chief inspector Sigi Kamm and psychologist Alicia Behrens don’t care much for conventions
On a hot July day in the middle of the summer holidays, two children disappear while playing in the woods. Shortly afterwards, a man dies when his rundown puppy mill goes up in flames. In the basement: traces of the missing children.
The usually so brisk chief inspector Sigi Kamm finds himself face-to-face with a mystery: Why won’t the mothers of the two missing children speak? He enlists the psychologist Alicia Behrens, known for her unconventional therapeutic methods, for advice. Before long, tempers flare and sparks fly between the two. And, the closer they come to solving the case, the more the boundaries blur between good and evil, guilt and innocence, friend and foe, truth and lies.
A fast-paced conundrum and first-rate psychological thriller – Dinah Marte Golch skillfully toys with the reader’s expectations in this extremely suspenseful and cleverly composed case.
