Sparkling sea, sunny beaches, ferryboat commuting, but bodies keep cropping up. Homemaker and mother of two, Nora Linde never intends to get involved, but she often has a connection to the victim or discovers the body or knows the culprit. She also knows police investigator Thomas Andreasson from their school days. Theirs is a love affair that keeps not happening: they're each attracted to the other, but Nora no sooner separates from her husband than he goes back to his wife.