Hell Is Open

Sixteen years ago, rookie cop
Tommy Bergmann was on the scene when a teenage girl’s mutilated body was
discovered in the woods. Schoolteacher Anders Rask confessed to the
murder, along with five others. He was sentenced to live out his days in
a mental institution outside of Oslo, and the case appeared closed.
That is, until now…

Amid a brutal Norwegian winter, now-detective
Bergmann is called to the scene of the assault of a young Lithuanian
prostitute. Her injuries bear a shocking resemblance to those of Rask’s
victims. Tommy cannot ignore the unsettling questions this crime raises:
Is Rask involved or, worse, inspiring a copycat? Or is the real serial
killer still out there, roaming the shadowy, frigid streets of Oslo,
poised to commit another murder?

Faced with the new attack and
Rask’s recently recanted confession, Tommy is forced to reopen the old
case that still haunts him and confront the demons of his own grim and
complicated history. As he works to untangle the complex web of
connections between the past and present, his closed case just might
become a cold case—with a truth more chilling than he could have
imagined.