Stieg Trenter

Harry Friberg photographs a mysterious lightning in the water outside the Blockhusudden. The light turns out to flow over a murder.

Harry Friberg receives a photo assignment at Lindarängen's airport in Stockholm. The assignment turns into a nightmare when the photographer is invited to a crayfish party by the company's director.

It's Christmas. The owner of an old mansion decides to tell his family he's going to sell it. The following morning he's found murdered.

On a shooting range outside of Stockholm in the raw September night something is not right. In the darkness of the marker the ground shows signs of blood.

A waitress finds out that her fourteen year old brother is a member of a youth gang doing burglaries in kiosks. Valdemar Jansson escapes prison and seeks out his fiancee Karin, but she does not want to know about him. She studies at the Social Institute and provides herself as a waitress in a cafe. She lives with her grandmother and her younger brother Benke. One day she discovers that Benke belongs to a boy, who makes minor burglaries in newspaper kiosks.

During August 1943 the Nazis advance is stopped. In Sweden there are both German Gestapo agents and Norwegian Resistance men active.

On a hot August day, Harry Friberg gets an urgent assignment: to photograph United Air's shining new floatplane at the Lindarängen air harbor in Stockholm. The evening's crayfish party to celebrate the acquisition turns out uniquely unpleasant - and when the manger totals his car, and the chief pilot crashes into the sea after take-off, Harry realizes that a horrible crime has been committed, and it's time to call police commissioner Vesper Johnson.

During August 1943 the Nazis advance is stopped. In Sweden there are both German Gestapo agents and Norwegian Resistance men active.