When Hanna gets lost in the dark forest during a thunderstorm, her greatest fear seems to come true - but she doesn't know that the worst is yet to come ... A few hours later, an unknown man who calls himself The Night Man comes forward: he is holding five people captive in glass boxes, and night after night one of them will die - unless someone manages to fulfill one of his demands. Immediately Europol's
Top investigator Inga Björk is assigned to the case. As head of the special unit for serial crimes, she knows the human abyss. Together with Christian Brand, she sets out to find a perpetrator who has left nothing to chance.

The reading was supported by Bertelsmann, the parent company of the Penguin Random House publishing group.