GIDEONS RING – GIDEON’S RING

By Carin Gerhardsen

Dawn is approaching. A man is fidgeting behind the wheel of his car as he drives along a desolate road. But he cannot outrun the demons, no matter how much horsepower his engine has got. Suddenly a naked young woman steps out of the early morning haze and runs straight towards him.
She is later found outside piano technician John Gideon’s flat, but is unable to tell anyone who she is or what has happened to her. And John Gideon is not opening his door. The neighbours tell stories of girls – dozens of them – that have walked in and out of his flat for several years.

The young woman’s unwillingness to talk creates a difficult task for Conny Sjöberg and his team. But they have just seen the beginning of a very intricate case when they are also faced with a fatal assault and the body of a dead infant.

Conflicting opinions lead to tension and the cracks begin to show. Petra Westman is driven by a simplistic contempt for the male kind, which may cause her to commit fateful mistakes. Jamal Hamad does his utmost to draw her attention to this. Odd Andersson relies on his intuition and judgement of character, but that doesn’t seem to take him very far this time around. Jens Sandén is preoccupied with his mentally disabled daughter and her baby and doesn’t notice what goes on around him. Hedvig Gerdin, on the other hand, is paying close attention and is determined to get to the bottom of things. And Conny Sjöberg struggles to stay neutral in the middle of a raging sea.