Three-time winner of the Best Swedish Crime Novel award
When Ante Valdemar Roos was twelve years old, his father committed suicide. Since then, Valdemar has consistently chosen the same combination of numbers at the bookmaker. He is now almost sixty and the wise words that "patience brings roses" are proving true: Roos wins two million crowns. Without saying anything to his family, he quits his job and buys a small house in the woods. A place where he can be himself. But one day he disappears and Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti must follow his trail...
