’Just when I thought that the flow of impressive crime writers from the Nordic countries was slowing down, up pops another. Unseen is the Swede Mari Jungstedt’s first novel, but it doesn’t feel like it. She is in total control’

--The Times

The first body they found was the dog. The poor creature’s throat had been cut, and one paw severed completely. Then they came upon the body of the woman. She had been stabbed, again and again; she was naked, with a piece of cloth stuffed into her mouth.

The picturesque holiday island of Gotland, off the coast of Sweden, is in the middle of a busy tourist season when a young woman is found murdered. Suspicion falls on her husband - the couple had been seen fighting the evening before. Inspector Anders Knutas is hoping it will be a straightforward case; the local authorities are hoping so too, but more out of an interest in protecting the tourist trade than any desire to see justice served. Then another victim is discovered, a second young woman, and she has been murdered in the same chilling manner...