SECRETS OF WHITE LAKE

HALLONFLICKAN – SECRETS OF WHITE LAKE

By Lina Areklew

MIRJA BRANDT returns to her hometown Skatviken after her marriage has fallen apart and her husband — and fellow police officer — has been exposed soliciting sex. Reluctantly she starts working for her father, who owns the local funeral home.

SHORTLY AFTER HER return, fourteen-year-old Agnes is found dead in White Lake. The police believe it to be a tragic accident, but Mirja quickly begins to realise that things don’t add up.

WHEN SHE AND her younger sister Luna collect the body for the funeral, the questions begin to mount. What was Agnes doing by the lake that morning? Why is no one speaking plainly about her relationship with her boyfriend, or about her influential stepfather? At the same time, we follow Agnes’s final weeks of life, and as the pieces of the puzzle fall into place, the truth behind her death proves far worse than Mirja could ever have imagined.

SECRETS OF WHITE LAKE is a thriller about grief, betrayal and the devastating consequences of silence. Set in a close-knit community where everyone knows each other, but no one tells the whole truth. It is the first instalment in a new crime series featuring Mirja Brandt and the funeral home in Skatviken.