PhD student Lynn Stohl, a computer genius and encryption expert, is asked by the police to investigate a brutal murder. A young woman was found dead in an apartment: her entire body was covered with varnish, like a porcelain doll. As an activist of an anti-fascist organization blacklisted by the security service, Lynn is skeptical of government power, and even more so of working with representatives of the security forces - detectives Rickard Stenlander and Erik Svensson. While the team tries to catch a killer who turns his victims into dolls, the right-wing movement is growing stronger in Sweden. Lynn's past comes back - and this is not at all what you want to remember. "Playing with Dolls" is a chilling thriller about a bloodthirsty maniac. A tough Scandinavian novel, where the center of the story is an ordinary woman – graduate student Lynn Ståhl. It is thanks to her intelligence, experience and immense confidence in her own abilities that the investigation reaches a new level.