A DETECTIVE NOVEL FROM THE WORLD-FAMOUS SWEDISH WRITER JAN-ULOF EKHOLM, MEMBER OF THE PRESIDIUM OF THE SWEDISH DETECTIVE ACADEMY. Göran Sandahl lives in a small Swedish town. He once worked for a large publishing house in Stockholm, but one day, in pursuit of a sensation, he made a fatal mistake. Fleeing shame, Göran went to the provinces and got a job at a local newspaper, where the biggest news was a report from the beet harvest. However, when the city's only taxi driver, Inga-Britt Ekman, is found shot to death with a pistol, he jumps at the chance to clear his professional name. The investigation leads to the husband of the murdered woman: former boxer and police officer Alf Ekman. But soon Ekman is found murdered, and Göran receives threats... typed from the office of his best friend and colleague, Bengt Håkansson, whose heart was cruelly broken by Inga-Britt...