The Snow Angel

A teenage suicide. A murdered pharmacist. A missing girl. Is the obvious connection the right one?When a boy leaps to his death from a bridge in the northern town of Ume�, Sweden, police discover drugs scattered in the snow near his body. The town has seen a dramatic increase in narcotic use among its youth, but nobody knows where the pills are coming from. Relocating from Stockholm with her teenage daughter, Detective Charlotte von Klint expected Ume� to be a quiet backwater, a snow-covered change of pace from fighting the criminal underworld of the capital. But when a pharmacist is found brutally murdered in her apartment, and a young girl and her dealer boyfriend vanish without a trace after a party, suddenly Ume� doesn't seem so benign. And the boy on the bridge doesn't feel like an isolated incident. Is the dealer the perpetrator? Or just another victim? And can it be a coincidence that a shadow from Charlotte's past, Syndicates boss Tony Israelsson, has recently been released from prison and is reportedly headed for Ume�?As the snow deepens and the body count rises, Charlotte and her boss, local cop Per Berg, find themselves in a deadly pursuit, with time rapidly running out.