A young woman is found strangled in a park, and a male journalist has been killed in the backyard of Copenhagen's Royal Hotel. In this series debut by the author of The Undertaker's Daughter, Detective Louise Rick is put on the case of the young girl, but very soon becomes entangled in solving the other homicide too when it turns out her best friend, journalist Camilla Lind, knew the murdered man. Louise tries to keep her friend from getting too involved, but this time, Camilla—who is never been one to miss out on an interesting story—may have gone too far.