The Victim

By Jenny Rogneby

Hanna Lans wakes up in the middle of the night by two masked intruders breaking into the villa where her husband and two children are sleeping – a nightmare that quickly becomes a death trap when the house catches fire. The perpetrators are sentenced to life imprisonment for arson. Seven years later, Hanna needs to find the strength to face the men who ruined her life again in mediation.

Mediator Angela Lans, Hanna’s sister, handles the charged conversations between victim and perpetrator. But new, shocking facts emerge about the case and overthrow everything Angela had planned and hoped for. 

Meanwhile, Angela returns to her own past and the devastating internal investigation that caused her to quit the police force. T he Victim is a gripping crime drama that asks the question how far we are prepared to go for someone we love.

The Victim is the third standalone part in the series about mediator Angela Lans. As always in Rogneby’s writing, we not only follow a thrilling case, but are also faced with unexpected ethical questions and encounter worlds we have never seen before.

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About the author

Jenny Rogneby is an author and criminologist, born in Ethiopia in 1974 and adopted to Sweden at the age of one. She grew up in the far north of Sweden, where her early talent for music led to formal training in piano and dance, eventually launching her first career as a pop artist.As her music career developed, Jenny became increasingly interested in human behavior and the psychological and societal forces behind our actions. This curiosity led to a degree in Criminology. She went on to work for seven years as a Criminal Investigator with the Stockholm City Police, handling a wide range of cases including theft, assault, sexual violence, and murder.Her experience in law enforcement sparked her transition into fiction writing, leading to her 2014 debut with Leona – The Die is Cast, the first in a best-selling crime series sold to 14 countries and optioned for film in the United States.In 2022, Jenny launched a new critically acclaimed crime trilogy featuring Angela Lans, a mediator determined to reform the justice system from within. In 2025, Jenny launches a new series featuring police interrogators Annie Altin and Alexander Tilly.