NIGHT FLYER

NATTFLYGAREN – NIGHT FLIER

By Maria Grund

IN MARCH 1986, a sixteen-year-old girl witnesses a crime at a motel in southern Sweden. She has left home following her sister’s disappearance and subsequent murder. 

SANNA BERLING, A newly minted trainee at the Oskarshamn Police, is assigned the task no one else wants. While the rest of the police force is absorbed in the murder of Olof Palme, she’s given the job of driving a runaway sixteen-year-old girl back to the village of Augu in Småland. 

WHILE SANNA IS in Augu, another girl mysteriously disappears. It appears she has taken her parents’ car and left. The police view it as a voluntary disappearance. However, Sanna isn’t as certain, and she starts looking closer at the old case. 

DESPITE THE MURDER being solved and the perpetrator behind bars, Sanna uncovers disconcerting similarities between the victim and the girl who’s now missing. Yet, she struggles to convince her colleagues, and when her own boss tries to persuade her to drop the investigation, she decides to secretly continue on her own.  

SANNA’S INQUIRIES lead her from the quaint red-painted facades of the small community and bottomless forest lakes to an isolated, abandoned hospital on the plains of Småland. She’s determined to uncover the truth, no matter how chilling, and no matter how alone she stands in the end.