One summer evening, Lily and her husband are enjoying a meal while their daughter sleeps peacefully in her pram beneath a maple tree. Then Lily steps outside to find her baby soaked in blood. She is unharmed, but Inspector Sejer is called in to consider why anyone would carry out such a sinister prank. Then, just before midnight, somebody rings his doorbell. The caller has left a small grey envelope on the mat. Inside is a postcard bearing a short message: 'Hell begins now'. Compelling and terrifying, this is the outstanding new novel from the Norwegian Queen of Crime.

Karin Fossum's critically acclaimed novels have won numerous prizes. She is two-time winner of the prestigious Riverton Award and has also won the Glass Key Award for the best Nordic crime novel, an honour shared with Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbo, as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her highly acclaimed Inspector Sejer series has been published in more than forty countries.