A phone call from the past begins the thirteenth novel in the series about Bergen detective, Varg Veum.September 1995. Veum is in his office when a telephone conversation takes him back twenty-five years, to a case he was involved in while working as a child protection officer, during the summer of 1970. A small boy was separated from his mother under tragic circumstances. But that had not been the end of it. In 1974 the same boy had surfaced in connection with a sudden death in his new home. And then again ten years later, in connection with yet another case: a dramatic double-murder in Sunnfjord. The boy is now an adult, and on the run in Oslo, determined to take revenge on those responsible for destroying his life, among them the former child protection officer, now detective Veum.

一通来自过去的电话开始了卑尔根警探瓦格-沃姆系列的第十三部小说。当Veum在他的办公室里，一次电话交谈将他带回到25年前，他在1970年夏天担任儿童保护官员时参与的一个案件。一个小男孩在悲惨的情况下与他的母亲分离。但这并不是事情的终点。1974年，同一个男孩因在新家突然死亡而浮出水面。10年后，他又因另一起案件而出现在人们面前：桑菲尤德的一起戏剧性的双重谋杀案。这个男孩现在已经长大成人，并在奥斯陆逃亡，决心对那些破坏他生活的人进行报复，其中包括前儿童保护官员，现在的侦探Veum。