THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR (SO FAR) • A farmhouse mysteriously goes up in flames with someone trapped inside and a community is never the same in the aftermath-both a thrilling whodunit and a deeply touching coming-of-age story by one of Sweden's top criminologists A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year • A BookPage Best Mystery & Thriller of 2024 (So Far) "When the body of a young woman is discovered in an incinerated farmhouse, resolution was swift: It was murder, her boyfriend did it, case closed. But for the boyfriend's nephew, Isak; the arresting officer, Vidar Jörgensson; and the entire community of Marbäck, closure is a myth about to be shattered-spectacularly."-The New York Times On a cold November night, a farmhouse burns to the ground. Inside a young woman is found dead-not from the fire but murdered. To the people in the rural community of Marbäck, this becomes a reference point: a before and after. For ten-year-old Isak Nyqvist, it sets in ...