On many occasions we have been raised that of the murderous psychopath as a guy who also becomes entangled in some kind of sinister evil gambling. In other words, it is about killing with a specific liturgy while leaving clues to an insane game. The murderer enjoys, with pretenses of genius, leading the investigator on duty through the labyrinths of his mind.
Y Karin Fossum, (who never ceased to amaze us in previous novels like Devil's light o Do not look back), wanted to start a new game in the game but completely disrupting the rules. Because ever since we met Riktor we already know that he, in an underground way, is engaged in practicing a kind of euthanasia in which, based on his sick magnanimity, he decides when a grandfather should leave the world.
He can do it because he works as a nurse in a nursing home and until that afternoon when the police entered his house, he thought that everything was going perfectly well.
However, his final arrest ended up completely disconcerting him. Those cops knew nothing of his evil chores ending the lives of so many elderly people ... An undoubted irony led him to jail for a crime he had not committed.
So Karin Fossum turns the game upside down. It is Riktor who has to manage to reveal the reality about his innocence without ending up redirecting the clues towards his true murderous performance. Because ... the truth is that Riktor misses his job at the nursing home. Only there could he lock himself up one after another with so many grandparents and grandmothers to end up lowering the curtain on their lives while watching the light fade in the depths of his pupils.
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