Trude Teige

The Patient

Pasienten

Would you let someone die if you could save ten others? What if it was your son or daughter?

He calls himself Croesus and has been a patient at the Norwegian mental institution Dikemark for 50 years. Before he dies, he whispers: – they kill patients here.
One of the few who managed to talk to Croesus, is Julia, the daughter of a brain surgeon who works at Dikemark.
Some years later Julia disappears without a trace, and when journalist Kajsa Coren is summoned to find out what happened, she is thrown into a maelstrom that includes psychiatric research, an undiscovered Edvard Munch-painting and neglected children.
Soon Kajsa’s employer is found murdered, and the investigation reveals that he was not who he said he was.