In Coffinville, when a girl runs, the village comes together. When she doesn’t come back, it falls silent. A teenage girl escapes from something the village pretends it doesn’t see. Another is still missing. She wasn’t the first. The last girl never even made the news. The police want answers. Coffinville wants silence. Investigator Patrik Bockgren knows better than most how this place works. He grew up learning that survival means keeping your head down and your truths buried—including the one he named at sixteen but never dared to speak. Now he's back, trading honesty for the illusion of peace, wearing the uniform that keeps questions at bay. The search uncovers more than fear — it reveals a cruelty built on patience. A man who doesn’t just hurt — he waits. Who thrives when girls scream and fight, but loses interest when they go quiet and let him do whatever he wants. When they stop resisting, he finishes them. Then he finds someone new — someone with the fight still intact. Patrik has seen violence before, but not this — not suffering turned into ritual, filmed for those who know where to look, hidden behind the locked doors of ordinary men. As Patrik hunts a man who hides in the woods, he finds himself chasing more than a killer. Every doorstep hides a secret. Every familiar face knows how to look the other way. And some fathers, when pushed far enough, will cross lines no badge can. The Ones Who Get Chosen is the first novel in the Coffinville series—a Nordic noir where routine hides brutality, silence is a survival tactic, and justice doesn't always wait for permission. Some girls run. Some end up in pieces. Some reckonings stain you forever. You don’t survive being chosen. You endure it. How much can you endure in Coffinville