From the Nordic noir duo who brought you The New York Times bestseller The Boy in the Suitcase comes a chilling new thriller with a deadly seventy-year-old mystery at its core—a mystery that crosses Europe and runs through countless graves.

Natasha Doroshenko, a Ukrainian woman who has been arrested for the attempted murder of her Danish fiancé, escapes police custody on her way to an interrogation in Copenhagen's police headquarters. That same day, the fiancé is discovered brutally tortured and murdered, and someone tries to abduct Natasha's eight-year-old daughter from the crisis center that has been caring for her while her mother was in jail.

Danish Red Cross nurse Nina Borg has been following Natasha's case for several years now, since Natasha first took refuge at the crisis center. Nina, who had tried to help Natasha leave her abusive Danish fiancé more than once, just can't see the young Ukrainian mother as a vicious killer. But in her effort to protect Natasha's daughter and discover the truth, Nina realizes there is much she didn't know about this woman and her past. The mystery has long and bloody roots, going back to a terrible famine that devastated Stalinist Ukraine in 1934.

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