The story is set in Ukraine and Sweden shortly before the recent Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity. A young medical researcher, Linda Strand, arrives in Kiev from Stockholm to take a short holiday with her brother Mikael, a freelance photographer. But Mikael fails to meet her as arranged and Linda has to rely on help from her local connections to unravel the mystery of his disappearance.Faced with a dilemma between finding her brother in Ukraine or pursuing a career promotion in Sweden, she finds herself confronting the terrible workings of an international criminal ring. She ultimately attempts the rescue of three cruelly exploited orphan children.From Kiev to Crimea to Stockholm, there is a lot of authentic contemporary detail in the story, giving a vivid flavour of sites, scenes, histories, cuisine and life. It also establishes a gallery of compelling characters, whose subsequent roles in the story are not always what they first seem. A renowned novel by a Kiev-born writer and a portrait of a famous Swedish actress offer the possibility for a new romance.
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