The murder victim, a self-declared Tinder addict. The one solid clue -- fragments of rust and paint in her wounds -- leaves the investigating team baffled. Two days later, there's a second murder: a woman of the same age, a Tinder user, an eerily similar scene. The chief of police knows there's only one man for this case. But Harry Hole is no longer with the force. He promised the woman he loves, and he promised himself, that he'd never go back: not...

Following the success of 2005's Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century, Patrik Ourednik again confounds expectations with what seems, on the surface, to be a detective novel...