A magnificent thriller novel by the Norwegian detective queen Karin Fossum about lies and secrets. A six-year-old girl has disappeared. Some suspicious guy took her away in a car, and the reader froze in anticipation of a terrible crime. But events take an unexpected turn: near a small forest lake, the police find the body of another - a fifteen-year-old girl. In a small town where everyone knows each other, terrible secrets are hidden in seemingly normal families. The number of suspects is growing... Lieutenant Conrad Seyer, as always, is leading the investigation...