One summer evening Lily and her husband are enjoying a meal while their baby daughter sleeps peacefully in her pram in the garden. But then Lily steps outside to find her baby soaked in blood. The distraught parents rush to the hospital where they discover that she is unharmed - the blood isn't hers.
One summer evening, Lily and her husband are enjoying a meal while their daughter sleeps peacefully in her pram beneath a maple tree. Then Lily steps outside to find her baby soaked in blood. She is unharmed, but Inspector Sejer is called in to consider why anyone would carry out such a sinister prank. Then, just before midnight, somebody rings his doorbell. The caller has left a small grey envelope on the mat. Inside is a postcard bearing a short message: 'Hell begins now'. Compelling and terrifying, this is the outstanding new novel from the Norwegian Queen of Crime.
