Maria Wern

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...

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.

It’s Christmas on Gotland when the island is suddenly struck by an unspeakable tragedy — a high-school girl is found dead in the middle of a country road wearing a white Lucia gown. What at first appears to be an incomprehensible suicide soon proves to be something far more sinister, when behind the innocent facade it turns out that a group of girls at the local high school is harbouring dark secrets...

Two women, seemingly unconnected to each other, die in apparent suicides. But the strange circumstances cause Maria Wern and her colleagues at the Gotland Police Department to dig deeper, and soon the questions multiply. Was someone stalking the women? Is there reason to believe that they were suffering from some kind of psychosis? And is there a common denominator after all?

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.

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.

A flare is sent up at a house party and a girl is found unconscious on a couch. Music stops and a scream is heard from the docks, a girl is found floating in the water.

A flare is sent up at a house party and a girl is found unconscious on a couch. Music stops and a scream is heard from the docks, a girl is found floating in the water.

A doctor disappeares but is soon after found on a roadside confused and with a intravenous drip keeping him alive.

A young soccer talent is found murdered the day after a celebration of the A team's promotion to a higher division. An unhealthy sports culture is exposed, where everything is about performing and winning at all costs.

Maria Wern dives deeper into the destructive sports environment with inciting parents, bribes and elite bets. Kasper's sister is being threatened and the question is whether the case can be solved before more young people get hurt.

A man is found shot and dying at a church ruin. It appears to be gang crime, but there is no motive and the weapon is gone. Maria and her team are looking for evidence that the murder is connected to a known criminal on the island.