An aging school photographer is brutally assaulted in his home on northern Gotland. Someone has tried to set fire to his archive. He is found dead four days later.
Tomas Hartman's mother is beaten and left in the woods to die. She vaguely remembers that someone was filming her.
When Maria Wern takes over the investigation, the killer threatens to expose Maria's private life to the public. 'Maybe that's the only weapon needed in the future,' speculates Per Arvidsson, 'public shame.'
In her new crime novel, Anna Jansson addresses highly topical themes. With a single click on a computer, an image can reach thousands of followers in a network. What happens when we carelessly post pictures from our lives on Facebook? Who gets access to them? In the wrong hands, our most private images can be made public. And what are we prepared to do to escape the shame?
