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In the latest installment of Niklas Natt och Dag's acclaimed trilogy, evil stalks the winding alleys of Stockholm, embodied in the figure of the shady and vengeful Tycho Ceton, who prepares an astonishing and perverse plan to plunge the Swedish capital into infernal abysses. Two lucid investigators have been trying to catch the sinister Ceton for more than a year: although Emil Winge dedicates all his efforts to solve the case, the ghosts of the past haunt him, the authorities have more important matters to attend to and his faithful squire, Mickel Cardell, is busy searching for Anna Stina Knapp, missing after the death of her twins. Meanwhile, hell looms inexorably...