Maria Wern

The case becomes personal for Maria and her colleagues when Hartman's daughter--who was doing an environmental report on Faro-- also disappears.

When a man is found shot on a Gotland beach, Maria's suspicions quickly turn to the landowner: an armed elderly man with dementia who has vanished.

A double murder sends Maria to Stockholm where she runs into a familiar face.

A double murder sends Maria to Stockholm where she runs into a familiar face.

Just as the Medieval Week is about to begin in Visby, the seventy year old woman Frida is assumed dead in an arson. When several murders occur, the traces lead Maria Wern and her colleagues to a quaint village where everyone knows everyone. The discovery of some documents in Latin and incomprehensible drawings turn the police's suspicions towards the rituals of the Medieval celebrations.

After intervening in a fist fight and getting beaten up herself, Maria heads the investigation of a woman who was murdered close to the place where Maria was assaulted. The murderer most likely witnessed what happened to Maria. The motifs oscillate between revenge for infidelity and hatred towards homosexuals, and as the number of murders increase so does Maria's frustration over the reluctance from neighbors and potential witnesses to collaborate in the investigation.

When Maria Wern of the Gotland Police Department receives anonymous death threats, she and her colleagues begin a frantic search to track down the source. Following a violent assassination attempt, however, she is ordered off the island for her own protection. Together with a group of old girlfriends from school, she secretly heads off to the pristine nature reserve of Stora Karlsö Island.

A ten-year-old boy disappears from a dinner in a little fishing village, while another vanishes from a refugee camp on the island. These are but the first in series of frightening events to take place on the island of Gotland, where a string of brutal murders are committed in quick succession. And what starts out as the search for a missing child, leads Maria Wern and her colleagues ever deeper into a nest of hidden agendas, personal betrayals — and links to international crime.

A lawyer on his way home through the sun-drenched Gotland countryside disappears without a trace. An island mink farmer receives a death threat and a sadistic trap is set up on his premises. Two separate events that soon prove to be linked — and from the moment that the first dead body is discovered, it becomes clear that it is just the beginning of something much bigger.

In the midst of the midsummer celebrations on the island of Gotland, a series of vicious murders take place with occult overtones. A man is found strung up alongside slaughtered animals; another is found sacrificed in his car in the middle of a summer meadow. The holiday paradise is shattered and soon attention falls on an old murder case involving a long-deceased killer that someone is clearly mimicking...