She knew it was a weird place. She'd heard the stories, seen the movies, read the books. But now police Chief Inspector Sigrid Ødegård has to leave her native Norway and actually go there; to that land across the Atlantic where her missing brother is implicated in the mysterious death of a prominent African-American academic. At once a thrilling race-against-time crime story, a personal journey through grief and a meditation on the world in which we live. From the author of "Norwegian by Night".