It’s 1914 in Paterson, New Jersey. Constance Kopp and her sisters Norma and Fleurette have taken their horse and buggy into town to do some shopping. Suddenly one of those newfangled motorcars plows right into them, damaging the buggy beyond repair. It’s a miracle the women themselves have survived with relatively minor injuries. People in the street help extricate them,  right the horse and retrieve the remnants of their ruined buggy. The driver of the motorcar is Henry Kaufman, who runs the family silk dyeing factory […]

There is a terrible storm kicking up in a little seaside town. The majority of it’s inhabitants are safely tucked in their homes, but three men are still at the local hotel, having their customary game of cards and a nightcap. Then one of the gentlemen decides to make his way home. The wind is blowing fiercely, adding difficulty to his already inebriated step and he loses ten matches trying to get his cigar lit. Ducking into the doorway of an abandoned house, he tries […]

A man is out walking his dog on the beach in Sandhamn, in the Stockholm archipelago. It’s a beautiful summer morning, but then his dachshund comes upon the body of a man caught up in a fishing net at the shores edge and the storybook idyll is shattered. Thomas Andreasson is a detective in the serious crimes unit at Nacka, a municipality that is considered a suburb of Stockholm. He’s looking forward to his upcoming vacation, which he will spend on the island of Haro, […]