Nine-year-old Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off to buy sweets. A good-natured, happy girl, she is looking forward to her tenth birthday. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, her mother, Helga Joner, starts to worry. She phones the shop and various friends, but no one has seen her daughter.

As the family begins to search for Ida, Helga's worst nightmare becomes reality. As the police are called in, hundreds of volunteers comb the neighbourhood, but there are no traces of the little girl or her bike. As the relatives reach breaking point and the media frenzy begins, Inspector Sejer struggles to remain calm and reassuring. But usually, missing children are found within forty-eight hours. Ida seems to have vanished without a trace.

This gripping thriller from psychological crime writer Karin Fossum will keep you on the edge of your seat as Inspector Sejer races against time to find the missing girl.