Empire of Silence

A disgraced journalist with nothing left to lose is hired by a shipping magnate to solve a twenty-six-year-old disappearance—but the old man's family would rather keep their secrets buried. Katrin Lindholm arrives on the Fahlström private island expecting hostility; what she finds is a dynasty built on lies, a forensic accountant uncovering financial crimes stretching back decades, and mounting evidence that the man who hired her may be hiding the darkest truth of all. In the empire Gustav Fahlström built, silence isn't just golden—it's enforced.