Frozen Tracks

Åke Edwardson’s “Frozen Tracks” Detective Chief Inspector Erik Winter investigates two puzzling crimes in Gothenburg, Sweden, during the fall. A fearful mother says that a man posing as a candy vendor is luring her little son into a car. The youngster returns unharmed, but other kids have similar experiences. Winter looks into sporadic assaults on reluctant college students in the interim.

Forgotten documents surface after a four-year-old boy is kidnapped and discovered harmed, exposing a link between the instances. Winter is in a race against time as Christmas draws near to avert a devastating tragedy.