Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees. Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?

William Wisting suspenderes og settes selv under etterforskning mistenkt for å ha fabrikkert bevis. Han var etterforskningsleder i en av landets mest medieomtalte straffesaker, da unge Cecilia Linde ble drept. Nå, 17 år senere, har det kommet for en dag at bevisene som felte gjerningsmannen var forfalsket. Mediene værer nytt blod. Wisting har brukt hele sitt yrkesliv på å jakte på forbrytere. Nå er det han som er byttet, og han må arbeide på egen hånd og i skjul for å finne ut hvem av deres egne som konstruerte det falske beviset, og hva som egentlig skjedde den gangen. Han får hjelp av journalistdatteren Line, men også fra svært uventet hold. Så forsvinner en ny, ung kvinne. Det blir starten på et nervepirrende kappløp.

Høsttåken ligger tett over kystlandskapet. Ove Bakkerud skal ha en siste rolig helg på sommerstedet før vinterstengningen. Men han kommer frem til en hytte i kaos, herjet av innbruddstyver. Og på nabohytta: en mann mishandlet til døde. Politiførstebetjent William Wisting har sett groteske drap før. Men desperasjonen han er vitne til i Stavern denne høsten, er ny for ham. Og fra himmelen faller det døde fugler.

Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees. Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?

Høsttåken ligger tett over kystlandskapet. Ove Bakkerud skal ha en siste rolig helg på sommerstedet før vinterstengningen. Men han kommer frem til en hytte i kaos, herjet av innbruddstyver. Og på nabohytta: en mann mishandlet til døde. Politiførstebetjent William Wisting har sett groteske drap før. Men desperasjonen han er vitne til i Stavern denne høsten, er ny for ham. Og fra himmelen faller det døde fugler.