A MYSTERIOUS DEATH A MISSING WOMAN A SECRET THAT REACHES FAR BEYOND HAPARANDA From Hans Rosenfeldt, the creator of the TV series The Bridge as well as Netflix's Emmy-award winning Marcella, comes a blockbuster new thriller in his Haparanda series... After a year of mourning, Hannah Wester returns to work and is immediately drawn into the investigation of a newborn's body found at the old cholera cemetery outside Salmis. Who is the mother, and where has she gone? The contract killer Katja has recently been assigned only minor tasks. Now, she's sent back to Haparanda on a far more serious mission: to track down two heavily pregnant young women who have escaped from the farm where their children were meant to be harvested for the highest bidder. A young politician appears on live TV, opening up about his and his wife's struggle with involuntary childlessness. But during the broadcast, he makes a surprising announcement--they're expecting a child. That same night, he receives a phone call. A woman, speaking in broken English, threatens to expose the true identity of the baby's carrier. As they all converge in Haparanda, Hannah must unravel a chilling web between Russian organized crime and the highest levels of power in Stockholm, uncovering a dark story of human trafficking and the surrogacy trade.
