“I made mistakes. I fell into one trap after another. Sometimes willingly. Deep inside I knew they were there and knew they were dangerous, but I didn’t know everything. Sometimes I tell myself I’d let myself fall into them again, if I only could.”

A young lawyer sits in custody and recalls a fateful encounter with Betty, who appeared one day in a tight dress and with a golden chain on her ankle. And when she smiled…

• First Prize of Honour for Nordic Crime Fiction, Boréales/Région Basse-Normandie, France, 2011

“…A particularly gripping, exciting
and ingenious story about a femme fatale…
The first models to spring to mind might be
The Postman Always Rings Twice
or Double Indemnity,
by James M. Cain, both of which were
adapted into great movies.”
FRETTABLADID NEWSPAPER