Parting Shot — Roger Ormerod

When fashion photographer and ex-cop Owen Tanner's Scandinavian wife Karin vanished from his apartment, he assumes that she has left him and their marriage is over. But then his home is ransacked and he begins to wonder if he has jumped to the wrong conclusion. And when he receives a distressed call from Karin in Sweden, his suspicions are confirmed. Owen leaves immediately for Scandinavia, determined to find out the truth. During the crossing, he meets beautiful Finlander Eija Karlsson who seems keen to help him in his quest. But the couple are not alone. When Own realises he is being tailed by an old colleague from the force, the Norwegian police and other more sinister figures, he finds himself somehow caught up in the middle of a hunt for international diamond thieves. As events reach a climax, Owen finds himself falling for Eija, and uncovers a story behind his wife's departure that he could never have imagined…