What happens to a world where God seems to have abandoned his people, leaving love as their last hope?
Young Elissar has fled Egypt, finding herself on the cold, unforgiving streets of Stockholm. She spends her days begging for money in order to survive, while desperately searching for her biological father. In this bleak existence, the only person she confides in is her friend Johan. When Elissar finds Johan brutally murdered in his apartment, her fragile world shatters.
Shaken and in a haze of panic, Elissar anonymously calls the police, drawing criminal investigator Leo Madvig into the case. The evidence points to a ritualistic killing, but the leads begin dwindling, which makes an exhausted and overwhelmed Leo escape to Tokyo. As Leo tries to distract himself from the unanswered questions, he unexpectedly encounters a local homicide detective who is investigating a case eerily similar to Leo’s case back in Stockholm. Have they stumbled upon an international serial killer?
Through a connection at Interpol, Leo learns of another uncannily similar murder in Paris. With the help of local detective Nadia Delon, Leo begins to see a pattern that stretches across borders and hastily returns to Stockholm to enlist the help of his close friends Lulu and the brilliant yet terminally ill Vic. The band of underdogs is back together again, but as Vic’s health begins to deteriorate and the threat of more murders hovers above them, a race against time begins. Who is this killer, who moves between countries like smoke in the wind, and who will fall into their merciless clutches next?
Love You Long Time is the exhilarating second installment of Mons Kallentoft’s Underdogs series. With unforgettable characters living on the margins of society, Kallentoft weaves a compelling narrative of greed and invisibility, along with the ultimate question: how far are we willing to go to please the higher powers?