THE RIGHT HAND

DEN HÖGRA HANDEN – THE RIGHT HAND

By  Mohlin & Nyström

FORMER FBI AGENT John Adderley is summoned to a hotel in central Karlstad after reports of a woman having been assaulted. But before John can speak to the victim, she vanishes without a trace.

IN ANOTHER PART of the city, Lukas Wessman wakes up in his girlfriend Rebecca’s apartment. The pair are colleagues at Glennfalk’s Real Estate Development, a company owned and led by the outspoken entrepreneur Torbjörn Glennfalk. On a bench outside the apartment, an obviously distressed woman is waiting for Rebecca. They met a few weeks earlier at the company party and the woman now claims she was sexually assaulted by Rebecca’s powerful boss.

LUKAS SOON FINDS himself in a conflict of loyalties. In one corner, his girlfriend Rebecca who firmly believes in the woman’s testimony. In the other, Torbjörn Glennfalk – his long-time mentor and father figure – who firmly denies the accusation. The plot thickens when the woman is thought to have taken her own life. Then, to the police’s surprise, a pair of leather gloves with fingerprints from a fugitive killer they have been chasing are found in her hotel room. How are they linked?

JOHN ADDERLEY IS drawn into a labyrinth of riddles that lead him, and the reader, to staggering insights. Furthermore, he has to collaborate with a new colleague, officer Daniela Vazquez. In her, John sees not only a promising investigator, but also something else… At home, John tries to find a routine for his new life as a foster dad to his niece Nicole, who is now ten years old. She doesn’t know John’s real identity or the fact that he is her uncle. The ticking time bomb from John’s past forces the truth out and puts his new little family under great strain.