New by bestselling Swedish writer Malin Persson Giolito, author of the award-winning thriller Quicksand. It's easy to die in Varinga, but damn hard to live. Snow drifts quietly onto the abandoned playground. A fourteen-year-old boy is lying face down in front of a swing, slowly draining the life out of him. Behind him stands his best friend with a still-hot gun in his trembling hand... The dedicated local police, single mothers, the owner of the grocery store on the square - no one is spared in a community where gang violence has taken over the city and where children kill children. And who will take responsibility for making sure it never happens again?