Martin Beck has been promoted chief of the Stockholm PD crime division and is looking for a successor as team leader, while acting Steinar Hovland ponders applying to become permanent, assuming he would be accepted. Thus special appreciation will be given to the team's conduct under his direction in the murder case of popular ex-hockey star Simon Lindström, who coaches both a regular suburban junior hockey team and one for refugee youngsters, mainly from the Middle East. The victim was allegedly last seen in the locker-room where he was murdered by two of these adolescents, an Iranian and a Syrian, who are keeping secrets while under great stress, involving a possible foster adoption and debt blackmail. Furthermore, many native Swedish school-kids have mixed feelings about the 'spoiled newcomers', and both groups had access.
—KGF Vissers