International literary sensation Camilla Läckberg takes the drama, suspense, and passion of her #1 bestseller <I>The Ice Princess </I>to new heights, returning to the Swedish fishing community of Fjällbacka, where life is remote, peaceful— and for some, tragically short. <P>Police detective Patrik Hedström and his girlfriend, writer Erica Falck, are anticipating the arrival of their first child when grim news comes: a boy playing on a perilous outcropping has stumbled across a woman's bloody corpse, a discovery that leads investigators to uncover two skeletons buried beneath her—campers who disappeared decades ago. Superintendent Mellberg gives Patrik the gruesome case, and topping his list of suspects is a local family of criminals and religious fanatics—what dark secrets are they hiding? But no one expects the next blow, when a young girl goes missing. . . .