After the municipality’s second richest woman is found dead on the Bastø ferry, police investigator Are Nyquist is posted to his hometown of Moss, against his will.

The murder victim had inherited several cornerstone companies, all of which she sold and liquidated. Since then, she’d spent all her time on charity and voluntary work. Who wanted to kill her, and was there something more behind it? What happens to a small Norwegian industrial town when the industry disappears, but the town continues to grow? Why does the smoke from the town’s last factory chimney go straight up even as the south wind tears at the walls of buildings? Why are some things dying slowly and unnoticeably, while others are dying quickly and inexplicably?

Moss is a post-industrial crime novel about a disintegrating social order, and about a man who is ashamed without quite understanding why.