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Another novel in the series about Harry Hole, a lone wolf, alcoholic, enfant terrible of the crime department, but also the best detective in the team. A young woman was found dead in her apartment in Oslo. A finger was amputated on her left hand, and a tiny red diamond in the shape of a pentagram - the devil's star - was hidden under her eyelid. A wave of similar murders is on the horizon.

Although suspended, his resignation has been prepared and is just waiting for the signature of the Chief who is on vacation, Harry decides to cooperate in the investigation of a series of murders, led by his rival Toma Waaler, for one reason only, the final exposure of Waaler as a corrupt police officer, involved in arms smuggling and responsible for the death of colleague and friend Ellen Gjatlen.