Desert highway. Midnight. Rain. Wet asphalt. Red Audi. Sudden blow. A guy in a sports jacket in a roadside ditch... The man is dead, and this is his doing. But you can’t bring back the murdered man, and his confession won’t make anyone feel any better. And then he makes a fatal decision: he just needs to disappear and try to live as if nothing had happened... Someone knocked down a very young boy and fled the scene of the crime. Commissioner Reinhart begins an investigation. But neither he nor the one he is looking for yet realizes that this death will not be the last. Håkan Nesser is rightly called the most famous, most read and most titled Swedish detective author. His novels are considered classics of the genre. They have a whole army of admirers all over the world. They are valued both for their cleverly twisted plots, skillfully worked out and thoroughly thought-out intrigues, and for their subtle psychologism.