With a new Skane County Police commissioner wanting to make his mark in Malmo, the Criminal Investigation Squad is under pressure when they are called in to solve the killing of a private investigator. The nature of the victim's work throws up some obvious suspects, yet not all is what it seems. When another murder takes place, there seems to be a politically sensitive connection. Anita Sundstrom, out of the force for a year after her resignation, is approached by a dying woman to track down a collection of paintings stolen from her family. The paintings were looted by the Nazis in Budapest in 1944. But needing the money, Anita takes on this seemingly impossible task. As she heads off to Hungary, she has no idea of the dangers ahead. This is the eighth mystery in the best-selling Anita Sundstrom crime series.

Praise for the Inspector Anita Sundstrom mysteries. 'Anita Sundstroem deserves her place alongside the best Nordic detectives.' Quentin Bates; 'In Anita Sundstroem Torquil MacLeod is developing a Sarah Lund for our decade.' Cafe Thinking

Torquil MacLeod was an advertising copywriter for 36 years. Born in Edinburgh, he now lives in Cumbria, with his wife, Susan. He came up with the idea for his Malmo detective, Inspector Anita Sundstrom, after the elder of his two sons moved to southern Sweden in 2000, and the author befriended two police detectives (both of whom worked out of the Ystad police station, the town in which author Henning Mankell's set his Kurt Wallander crime series!). The author is currently working on the ninth title in the series which is due to be published late 2022.