num_pages: 368
description: Winters chill has descended on Stockholm as police arrive at the scene of a shocking murder. An unidentified woman lies beheaded in a posh suburban homea brutal crime made all the more disturbing by its uncanny resemblance to an unsolved killing ten years earlier. But this time theres a suspect: the charismatic and controversial chain-store CEO Jesper Orre who owns the home but is nowhere to be found.To homicide detectives Peter Lindgren and Manfred Olsson nothing about the suave high-profile businessmanincluding a playboy reputation and rumors of financial misdeedssuggests he conceals the dark heart and twisted mind of a cold-blooded killer. In search of a motive Lindgren and Olsson turn to the brilliant criminal profiler Hanne Lagerlind-Schn. Once a valued police asset now marooned in unhappy retirement and a crumbling marriage shes eager to exercise her keen skills againand offer the detectives a window into the secret soul of Jesper Orre. But theyre not the only ones searching. Two months before Emma Bohman a young clerk at Orres company chanced to meet the charming chief executive and romance swiftly bloomed. Almost as quickly as the passionate affair ignited it was over when Orre inexplicably disappeared. One staggering misfortune after another followed leaving Emma certain that her runaway lover was to blame and transforming her confusion and heartbreak into anger. Now pursuing the same mysterious man for different reasons Emma and the police are destined to cross paths in a chilling dance of obsession vengeance madness and love gone hellishly wrong.
language: English
title: The Ice Beneath Her
publisher: Ballantine Books