Richard Ulfsäter

Site manager Tommy manages the business of the tour operator Shines offices in Gran Canaria as he wants and without interference , until Marten from headquarters will be sent there to learn the business from the ground up .

Kjell Bergqvist is a priest for the Swedish church in Thailand, and he is happy with his easy life in an exotic paradise. Maybe he drinks a little too much and maybe he flirts a little too much with the married women.

Erica mentions in a TV interview, that her next book's about her friend, Peter, who vanished when they were 13. Shortly after, Peter's brother gets murdered. Erica and her cop husband investigate separately.

Anna visits her writer sister Erica and her cop husband Patrik in Fjällbacka. Anna dates a TV host filming in town. A woman's found unconscious, OD'd on insulin. Then a man's murdered. Patrik and Erica investigate.

Events have parallels in 1931-2. The Lucia bride goes missing. The herring factory majority owner is found dead there. Writer Erica and her cop husband investigate while also preparing for Christmas.

On the way to a romantic weekend, writer Erica and her cop husband stop in Kungshamn to investigate the possible murder of two French scuba divers, declared an accident by the coastguard. It may be related to an 1820 shipwreck.

Fjällbacka's photographer is found murdered in his studio by writer Erica, who starts investigating even before her cop husband. Only negatives are missing.

Erica's parents are killed in a traffic accident. She moves to Fjällbacka and discovers she has a brother.

A German expedition is going to the Norwegian arctic islands of Svaldbard in late August 1939 (back then called Spitsbergen), trying to find proof of the theory that all land on Earth 300 million years ago was connected, before the land broke up into the continents we know today. Just days after arriving in the icy waters, the tense European pre-war situation gets more tense, when Germany then invades Poland, and the second world war starts. The expedition is German, and so is a couple of others, but the captain of the ship is Norwegian, and they also bring a Russian crew, and a Swede and a couple of Brits, one of them is even a Jew. Waiting to be contacted by their respective governments, since they now are all part of a German expedition in wartime, they continue their mission of finding proof of the German Alfred Wegener's theory of Pangaea. The German government is then commanding them to commit a military operation to help sink a British war ship with 1200 soldiers, and ending the expeditions main goal. They are in a situation on a small ship from which they can't escape.