Many will be appalled by my actions. Some will see them as revenge for all the wrongs that have been committed, others as a macabre game to elude the system and show how far one can go. But the vast majority will agree that it is the deeds of an extremely ill person. Everyone will be wrong ... The Minister of Justice is leaving the Riksdag after a heated debate. He uses the rear exit to avoid the waiting press contingent, but never gets to the car that is waiting for him some distance away. He seems to have gone up in smoke, in the middle of the center of power. It is six months before the events in Sacrifice without a Face and the weeks before Christmas. The snow and cold keep both Stockholm and Copenhagen in an iron grip when Fabian Risk is called in to secretly investigate the disappearance of the Minister of Justice. Officially, the case is still SÞapo's responsibility, but they, like Fabian and his heavily pregnant colleague Malin Rehnberg, grope blindly. It soon turns out that nothing is as it seems and that powerful interests work to prevent the truth from coming out. At the same time, the wife of a Danish TV profile is found brutally murdered in her home in Copenhagen. Dunja Hougaard leads the investigation that takes her across the strait to Sweden. The Ninth Grave is an intricately constructed thriller in which Stefan Ahnhem tells what drove Fabian Risk to leave Stockholm and move back to Helsingborg. Like strangers, Fabian and Dunja cross each other's tracks in a winter-cold Scandinavia and are drawn deeper and deeper into the conspiracy that turns out to be worse than they could ever have imagined. Stefan Ahnhem was awarded the Crimetime Specsavers Award 2015, for his debut Offer without a face.