Right after the discovery of two murdered bodies kept half the newspaper busy trying to bring as much of the story as possible, Annika Bengtzon gets a phonecall from a woman asking the media's attention to a new way of helping people to start a new life.  Annika isn't too enthusiastic about it, but she agrees to listen to the woman's story.  The information Rebecka Björkstig brings her is about an organisation called Paradise, an organization that "wipes out" people who are on the run - for an agressive husband, or for an agressive government, or worse.

When a Bosnian woman she met who claimed to have information about the Stockholm murders is threatened, possibly by the murderer, Annika gives her the contact-information for the Paradise organization.  But in the back of her mind a little voice starts to nag.  Is this Rebecka genuine?  Not everything she told Annika fits together, some details are even totally wrong.  Was it wise then to send the Bosnian woman to her?  Her worst fear comes true when the Bosnian woman is murdered, in the middle of a protest-demonstration.  Annika Bengtzon gets a terrible emotional blow from this, she feels very guilty, and she collapses...

The main storyline is that of the journalist who wants to follow her gut-feeling and find out the truth about a too-good-to-be-true story.  But there's a lot more going on.  Annika's emotional mess, still trying to cope with her fiancé's violent death, her struggle trying to be recognized again as the journalist she is, her grief for her grandmother's ill health, a kommun's accountant who's fed up with the life he leads, the power-games and the politics at the editorial staff at her newspaper...  They all look like a lot of loose ends at first, but Liza Marklund knows what she's doing with all those loose yarns.

All those yarns wind together as an excellent mix of investigation, some action, some tension, some emotional evolution, some love.  To me even Stockholm felt particularly close to home -though I live about a thousand kilometers from it- when I noticed lots of the places mentioned in the book were actually on or near my walk through the city, last fall.  But though the references to places and streets are nice if you know them, they're not needed to enjoy this story - and enjoy it I surely did.