What could Henry Pekkari’s murder have to do with the body of a man that was kept in his freezer for decades?Īs Rebecka and the team with the Kiruna police start digging into the case, they are led to the Lingonberry King – a man, now in his nineties, who was once the region’s organized crime leader. When forensic pathologist Pohjanen’s examination confirms her suspicions, Rebecka’s spare-time work with a cold case turns into a red-hot murder investigation. Rebecka Martinsson begins to suspect that Henry Pekkari was murdered.
When Rebecka and Sven-Erik visit the man’s house, there are signs that suggest someone had been living out on the island with the old man. Henry Pekkari had lived alone out on a river island and neighbors report having seen snowmobiles drive across the frozen water shortly before he was found dead.
#Sins of our fathers professional
Rebecka feels an inherited animosity toward the people who once treated her mother poorly – and her personal feelings may be clouding her professional judgement. Rebecka Martinsson’s mother was a foster child in the Pekkari home and had been like a sister to Ragnhild before she broke with the family. An old woman named Ragnhild Pekkari found the dead body in the freezer while she was cleaning out her brother Henry’s house. What she doesn’t tell him is that she has a personal connection to the case. Rebecka convinces recently retired police officer Sven-Erik Stålnacke to help her look into the case. But how can she ignore a dying man’s wish?
Rebecka, who recently went through an abrupt break-up and is in a smoldering fight with friend and colleague Anna-Maria Mella, wants nothing to do with a fifty-year-old murder case – she already has enough to worry about.
It has been identified as a man who disappeared without a trace in 1962: the father of the famous Swedish boxing champion Börje Ström. A body has been found in a freezer in the home of a dead alcoholic. Forensic pathologist Lars Pohjanen only has a few weeks left to live when he asks prosecutor Rebecka Martinsson to investigate a murder that has long since passed the statute of limitations.
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