The first installment in Helene Tursten’s brand new series featuring the strong, smart Detective Inspector Embla Nyström. From a young age, 28-year-old Embla Nyström has been plagued by chronic nightmares and racing thoughts. Though she still develops unhealthy fixations and makes rash decisions from time to time, she has learned to channel most of her anxious energy into her position as Detective Inspector in the mobile unit in Gothenburg, Sweden, and into sports. A talented hunter and prize-winning Nordic welterweight, she is glad to be taking a vacation from her high-stress job to attend the annual moose hunt with her family and friends. But when Embla arrives at her uncle’s cabin in rural Dalsland, she sees an unfamiliar face has joined the group: Peter, an enigmatic young divorcé. And she isn’t the only one to take notice. One longtime member of the hunt doesn’t welcome the presence of an outsider and is quick to point out that with Peter, the group’s number reaches thirteen, a bad omen for the week. Sure enough, a string of unsettling incidents follow, culminating in the disappearance of two men from a neighboring group of hunters. Embla takes charge of the search, and they soon find one of the missing men floating facedown in the nearby lake, his arm tightly wedged between two rocks. Just what she needs on her vacation. With the help of local reinforcements, Embla delves into the dark pasts of her fellow hunters in search of a killer.

In this thrilling mystery set in rural Sweden, Detective Inspector Embla Nyström must solve a murder case and find two missing children before the small town takes matters into their own hands. When a little girl disappears a few weeks before Christmas, suspicion falls on the last person she was seen with: the mentally disabled teenage boy who gave her a ride home after school. Complicating the matter is the fact that detectives can hardly get a word out of him. When a second child disappears and a police officer is found dead, tensions in the small town of Strömstad reach an all-time high. Meanwhile, 28-year-old Detective Inspector Embla Nyström has just returned to work and is still recovering from her recent brush with a killer, which left her unable to get back in the ring to defend her title of Nordic light welterweight champion. As she hunts for the missing children, Embla can’t help but think of the case that has been haunting her for years: the disappearance of her childhood best friend. Could the incidents be linked? With the passing of each dark winter day, the odds of finding the children alive shrink, and desperation mounts. Their parents want answers and will stop at nothing to get them.

Sandgrav är den andra delen i en ny serie av Helene Tursten, författaren bakom succén om kriminalkommissarie Irene Huss. Kriminalinspektör Embla Nyström är på semester i norra Dalsland när hon får ett samtal från sin släkting Harald. En död man har hittats i en av stugorna han hyr ut, och när Embla kommer dit upptäcker hon att det rör sig om en regelrätt avrättning. Den döde mannen är en av de största ledarna inom organiserad brottslighet i Sverige. Han är också en av dem som ligger bakom försvinnandet av Emblas barndomskompis Louise. Ett femton år gammalt brott som aldrig blivit löst. Kort efter upptäckten i stugan hittas flera personer i gangsterbossens innersta krets döda. Utredningen av morden leder Embla från Ulvsjön hela vägen till Split i Kroatien. Kan jakten på de skyldiga ge henne svar på vad som hände för alla år sedan? Finns det en chans att hennes vän fortfarande lever?