A bomb has destroyed Stockholm's new Olympic arena just before the Summer Games and someone is killed, putting a city on edge with fears of further attacks. The bomber will be journalist Annika Bengtzon's biggest story - or the final nail in her coffin.

Desperate to gain some experience, 24-year-old Annika Bengtzon has taken on a work placement at Stockholm's biggest tabloid newspaper. Manning the tip-off phoneline, Annika isnt sure this is going to aid her career at all. Until she receives a call informing her that the body of a young woman has been found.

A December night in Stockholm. Inside the City Hall, over a thousand guests attend the prestigious Nobel Prizewinners' dinner. With a lavish meal laid on to the backdrop of a full orchestra, this is one of the city's most glamorous events of the year. But things are different tonight. Two shots ring out over the dance floor.

At a derelict port in Stockholm, two brutally murdered men are found by a security guard. In the same area a young woman, Aida, is on the run from a deranged gunman. Meanwhile, journalist Annika Bengtzon is approached by a woman wanting her story published in the Evening Post who claims to have founded an organization to erase people's pasts.

A violent robbery has killed an entire family on the Costa Del Sol. Annika Bengtzon is assigned to cover the story for the Evening Post. But when she arrives in Spain she discovers there was a third child - a teenage daughter - who is unaccounted for. Annika makes it her mission to find the missing girl.

Annika Bengtzon has spent her career telling stories that need to be heard. As a journalist, she's always been at the front line of criminal reporting, alongside the investigating officers. And now a court case that she's been reporting on - the savage murder of a homeless man - has begun to attract a lot of attention.