One dinner at The Grand Hotel, one dead businessman, and suddenly a homeless woman becomes Sweden's most wanted fugitive. Sybilla has traded her comfortable middle-class life for the anonymity of the streets, a choice that has made her invisible to most—until a chance encounter at an upscale hotel changes everything. When she charms a businessman into buying her dinner and a room for the night, she thinks she's secured a brief reprieve from the cold. But when he's found dead the next morning, she becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation. And when a second body turns up under eerily similar circumstances, the net tightens around her with terrifying speed. Karin Alvtegen transforms what could have been a straightforward thriller into something far more unsettling and profound. This is a novel that asks whether murder and mercy can coexist, whether survival on society's margins requires compromises we can't imagine from our safe perches. Sybilla's flight from the police becomes a journey inward, forcing her to confront not just the crimes she may or may not have committed, but the reasons she chose to disappear in the first place. Missing is a gripping, multi-layered exploration of guilt, identity, and the razor-thin line between victim and perpetrator. It's a thriller that refuses to let you look away, even when the truth becomes almost too painful to bear.