In 'Death of the Demon', Anne Holt's detective Hanne Wilhelmsen investigates her third case: the manager of a children's home is dead and a 12-year-old tearaway in on the run.

In 2001, three year old Dina is killed in a tragic car accident. Not long thereafter Dina's mother dies under mysterious circumstances, and Dina's father Jonas is convicted of her murder. In 2016, the cold case ends up on the desk of Detective Henrik Holme, who tries to convince his mentor Hanne Wilhelmsen that the father might have been wrongly convicted. Holme and Wilhelmsen discover that the case could be connected to the suicide of an eccentric...