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A promising young singer is found dead in a clearing in a forest, gruesomely murdered—her larynx cut out, and an antique music box placed carefully atop her body, playing a mysterious lullaby that sounds familiar, but that no one can quite place. Chief Inspector Odd Singsaker, of the Trondheim...

1528. A young Franciscan monk travels to Norway to collect a set of scalpels from a barber surgeon with whom he shares a dark and mysterious obsession with the dissection of human corpses. He travels north and settles in a remote village. His deadly legacy is a mysterious manuscript, the Book of...

I 1767 flygter en fattig visesanger fra Stockholm, efter at have fornærmet datteren til en af byens mægtigste mænd. Samme år finder den fordrukne og stridbare politimester Nils Bayer et afklædt mandeligt lig på lysten uden for Trondheim. Næsten 250 år senere bliver en kvinde fundet...

År 1528. En ung, omrejsende franciskanermunk gør et kort ophold i Bergen, inden han fortsætter sin rejse nordpå. Med sig fra byen tager han et udvalg af knive og et ubehandlet skind med en hemmelig historie. Næsten fem hundrede år senere dukker et lig op på et museum i Richmond, Virginia...

En vinterdag på Hitra står Odd Singsaker i et ødelagt hus med en haglgevær for fødderne og et lig på gulvet. To uger senere sidder han i et afhøringsrum – og forsøger at forklare, hvordan det hele kunne gå så galt. Samtidig er Felicia Stone forsvundet. Det, der begynder som en...

A murder at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, bears a close resemblance to one in Trondheim, Norway. The corpse of the museum curator in Virginia is found flayed in his office by the cleaning staff; the corpse of an archivist at the library in Norway, is found inside a locked...

1528. A young Franciscan monk travels to Norway to collect a set of scalpels from a barber surgeon with whom he shares a dark and mysterious obsession with the dissection of human corpses. He travels north and settles in a remote village. His deadly legacy is a mysterious manuscript, the Book of...