About this book
Mara Vestergaard translates other people's words for a living: medical reports, instruction manuals, anything that keeps the world at four storeys' remove. Then an anonymous client offers her double her rate, in cash, for a literary manuscript — a confession, delivered in installments, on one condition: no one else may know. The manuscript is brilliant, merciless, and impossible. It knows things about the unsolved murder of Mara's sister Freja — twelve years cold — that were never printed anywhere: the color of a hair band, a hummed lullaby, a boat named Tern. It knows Mara's lamp. It knows her routines. And the last chapter, the client promises, will name the killer.