Månadsarkiv: juli 2014

On the freezing night before the eve of Walpurgis, Charlie Eriksson falls to her death from a balcony on the eleventh floor of a high-rise apartment block in the Stockholm suburb of Jakobsberg. She leaves a chaotic life behind her, of drug abuse and shattered dreams.

A few hours earlier Riddarn, a scruffy tramp known for his delusional claims and wild conspiracy theories, has seen her outside a nightclub together with a threatening man. But who would ever believe in a witness like that?

The case is written off as a suicide by the police, as there are no signs of crime at the scene.

Helene has left Jakobsberg, broken all links to her family and distanced herself from her childhood: a mother who abandoned them and a father who drank too much. Läs mer →