A murdered prosecutor, brutally killed and dumped in the woods.
Nazi demonstrations and civil unrest.
Three officers, no suspects, and plenty of secrets.
On an ice-cold October night, a high-profile prosecutor is found brutally murdered in the woods outside of Luleå. Half her face is caked in dried and frozen blood, and one unseeing eye stares into the darkness of the night.
Officers Julia Berg and Khaled Zaki are put at the head of the investigation, with detective Demian Vide supporting them from the sidelines. Though, one could say that Demian is not currently at his… best. He left Stockholm to get away from working side by side with death, and, well, since Julia was nearly killed a few months ago, the plan hasn’t really worked out. To make matters worse, the man who once tried to kill Demian has escaped from prison; a man who isn’t known to let chances for revenge pass him by.
Demian’s young adepts throw themselves headfirst into the case, but they are quickly stumped. Everyone who knew the prosecutor, Alice Hammar, insists that she was well-liked, respected, and immensely loved by family and friends. However, Alice’s line of work comes with the unfortunate bonus of plenty of pissed off criminals. Could one of the perps she’d prosecuted have returned to seek revenge?
By coincidence, Julia stumbles across the unsolved murder of a woman eight years prior with chilling similarities to their ongoing case. At the time, the woman’s husband was the prime suspect, but he was cleared of all charges. He now catches the police’s interest once again, and his 14-year-old son Jack, who never truly got to mourn the loss of his mother, vows to search for the truth himself.
While the case unravels into a mess with no clear path to follow, the team struggles with their own chaotic lives. Khaled has barged his way into Julia’s sphere and is crashing on her couch, Julia is working herself to death trying to prove herself, and Demian is nearing a total crash-out, seeing threats wherever he looks. It feels as if they’re all stuck in a pile of quicksand, with no way of escaping.
Meanwhile, a shameful past filled with secrets begins to surface, carrying echoes from the 1940s wartime years. A time when German Nazis roamed freely in the North; a time that most of Northern Sweden would rather keep buried.
None Shall Escape is the second installment of Anders Sundkvist’s praised Crime Scene North Series. Once again, Sundkvist brings together complex characters and a hearty dose of humor with an intricate crime investigation, revealing how the secrets of the past can cast long shadows over the present.
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