Inspector Irene Huss, stationed in Gêtenborg, is called through the rain-drenched streets to the scene of an apparent suicide. The dead man landed on the sidewalk in front of his luxurious duplex apartment. He was a wealthy financier connected, through an old-boys' network, with the first families of Sweden. But this 'Society Suicide' turns out to have been a carefully plotted murder. As more killings ensue, Huss tangles with street gang members, skinheads, immigrants and neo-Nazis - a cross-section of Sweden's disaffected - in order to catch the killer.
