Cold spring on the island of Öland. This is a scene where there are no witnesses when someone decides to take his own life and someone else's. Per Merner inherited a house and now hopes that his father will leave him alone. But the father’s shameful life leads to a chain of fatal events. Everything will happen on Walpurgis Night, when bonfires blaze all over the island... “Bloody Rift” is a new novel by Johan Theorin, one of the most titled and best-known writers outside the country of modern Sweden, winner of the Golden Dagger International award for the best detective novel of the year.