Silenced

Summary

Fifteen years ago: Ateenage girl is viciously assaulted as she picks flowers in a field one nightin midsummer. The crime is never reported.

Present day: A manwith no identification on his person is killed in a hit-and-run. He is neverreported missing. Across the city, a priest and his wife are found dead in anapparent suicide.

Fredrika Bergman isassigned to the case. What she and her colleagues discover is that a sinisterevil, the roots of which date back decades, is the link behind these seeminglyunrelated crimes. There’s a reason why none of them were ever reported, and ithas to do with a shocking and horrendous cover-up unlike anything Fredrikacould have possibly imagined.

Skillfully craftedand highly suspenseful, Silenced is agripping thriller in which the consequences of past tragedies continue to hauntthe present, reaching further and deeper than anyone ever expected.