An intense thriller that gets your adrenaline pumping: in a fascinating, atmospheric Nordic setting, a ruthless, unstoppable serial killer is on the loose, forcing former police inspector Marcus Morgen – a man damaged in body and soul – and young Italian researcher Valentina Santi to confront their past. 

Nature cannot avenge herself, but someone else can do it for her…

 

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Lofoten, Norway, 1995. Marcus Morgen is holding a gun. He has decided that it’s time to end it all. He’s lost everything: the love of his life, his leg and the job he loved: police inspector in the Oslo crime squad. In this remote, far-northern archipelago, among ancient mountains and arctic fjords, Marcus has nothing left worth living for, for even just another day. He’s about to pull the trigger. But at that very moment, Ailo, a friend and colleague, bursts into his house: there’s been a murder. Marcus’s brilliant mind takes off again: his intuition tells him that this may not be a one-off incident. As a matter of fact, a ruthless serial killer starts to sow panic among the residents of these islands, guilty of abusing nature. This man conceives sadistic crimes that resemble those committed by the victims – an elusive man who seems at one with untamed nature. In order to stop him, Marcus needs someone who knows these locations like the back of her hand: Valentina Santi, an Italian scientist and expert in marine animals who is in Lofoten to study whales. But to put an end to this bloody trail, it’s not enough just to follow clues. Marcus and Valentina must confront their own past and, above all, that of a killer who was himself also a victim, someone destined for evil.

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A new, intense and adrenaline-filled thriller: in a fascinating, atmospheric setting in the Italian Apennines, a brutal ritual murder is discovered, and a ruthless killer is on the loose.

On the case: the biologist Folco Mancini and the newly appointed captain of Carabinieri Alma Rovere: an extraordinary yet tormented woman, afflicted by an extremely rare neurological condition: hyperthymesia, or absolute memory. Every word, gesture, and detail remains imprinted in her mind forever. An extraordinary investigative gift — and, at the same time, a curse.

Sibillini Mountains, 2016. Folco Mancini discovers the body of a young French zoologist in a wolf’s den: her heart has been replaced with that of a she-wolf in a macabre ritual. The investigation is entrusted to Captain Alma Rovere, who has just transferred there for a deeply personal reason: to find her brother’s murderer.

But Alma is hiding another secret. Her rare neurological condition makes her incapable of forgetting: every image, every word, every sound is impressed in her memory, including the painful memories from her past she longs to escape.

As the investigation unfolds, suspicion falls on multiple suspects – even on Folco himself, with whom Alma develops an unexpected connection. He is the first man to breach her solitude, someone who sees her for who she is: a solitary huntress, led by instinct and sharpened senses. While every suspect has a motive and the leads keep multiplying, the killer remains unknown – and no one is safe.

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