Chief inspector Kristian Wold is assigned to a one-year-old missing persons case.

However, Kristian's conscience forces him to comply when Inger Danielsen, mother of the 14-year-old girl who is missing, asks to see him.

As Kristian feels obliged to continue an investigation that has so far been fruitless, an emotional tension is ignited between him and the mother.

Inexorably, the two are drawn towards each other, in what will become a love affair against all odds, with a disastrous end awaiting.

[1] Kurt Hanssen of Dagbladet called Invisible Hands "a very strong novel, written with a precise and economical language where every word has meaning and weight, where there is barely a single cliché, where the merciless passion is responsible for the progression.