When a British heir hunter fails to return home after a trip to Malmo, Inspector Anita Sundstrom doesn't want to get entangled in a simple missing person's case. She shows a similar reluctance when her ex-husband begs her to find his girlfriend, who seems to have disappeared.
But when the mysteries take a sinister turn, Sundstrom finds herself inextricably involved in both baffling affairs, one of which seems to be connected to a robbery that took place twenty years earlier.
As the cases begin to unravel, tragedy awaits the investigating team in the third Anita Sundstrom Malmo mystery.