The fire witness a novel
(Playaway)

Title from Playaway label.

"HDAUDIO."

Release date supplied by publisher.

Previously released by Macmillan Audio.

Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.

One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.

"Originally published in 2011 by Albert Bonniers Förlag, Sweden, as Eldvittnet."

Read by Mark Bramhall.

Flora Hansen calls herself a medium and makes a living by pretending to commune with the dead. But after a gruesome murder at a rural home for wayward girls, Hansen begins to suffer visions that are all too real. She calls the police claiming to have seen a ghost, but only one detective puts aside his skepticism long enough to listen: Joona Linna. Linna has spent more time at the scene of the crime than any other detective would. The case seems obvious on the face of it: One of the girls at the home escaped in the middle of the night, leaving behind a bloody bed with a hammer under the pillow. But why does Hansen insist that the murder instrument was a stone, not a hammer? And what's the story behind the dark-red grain of sand, almost like a splinter from a ruby, stuck beneath the dead girl's fingernail? As Linna refuses to accept the easy answers, his search leads him into darker, more violent territory and, finally, to a shocking confrontation with a figure from his past.