SECRETS OF WHITE LAKE

HALLONFLICKAN – SECRETS OF WHITE LAKE

By Lina Areklew

WHEN MIRJA BRANDT returns to her family’s funeral home in Skatviken, it is to lick her wounds. Her marriage has fallen apart after her husband – and colleague in the police force – was exposed as a sex buyer.

SHORTLY AFTER HER return, fourteen-year-old Agnes is found dead in White Lake. The police believe she drowned in a tragic accident. But Mirja, who once worked as a coroner, soon realises that something is not right.

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, guilt and vulnerability in a small town where everyone knows everyone, and no one says everything they know. It is the first instalment in a new series about Mirja Brandt and the funeral home in Skatviken.