Midwinter Sacrifice

''An investigation consists of a mass of voices, the sort you can hear, and the sort you can''t. You have to listen to the soundless voices, Malin. That''s where the truth is hidden.''

Early one morning in the coldest winter in Swedish memory, police detective Malin Fors is called away from the warm flat she shares with her teenage daughter. The naked body of a man has been found hanging from a tre...