It’s mid-September, Lapland is resplendent in the vibrant colours of autumn, up in the mountains the first snow is falling. At the time of year when the locals round up reindeer to celebrate the Sami reindeer slaughter festival, the body of a woman is discovered: in the middle of the animals that have been slaughtered according to traditional rituals, shot dead by a bolt gun. In search of Ella Vikström’s murderer, Chief Inspector Linda Lundin and her colleagues have to delve deeply into the past of a divided village that is guarding an explosive secret. Set in the wide expanses of the polar circle, Inspector Lundin reveals a network of guilt and betrayal that reaches into the present day.
