The Frozen Woman won Michelet, for the second time, The Riverton Prize, the Norwegian equivalent of the Silver Dagger, for best crime novel. Ex-cop and ex-private investigator Vilhelm Thygesen is now 63 years old. He makes a living buying and selling stamps, and takes occasional assignments as a lawyer. True to tradition, reality catches up with him, and he gets involved in a crime. One morning in Febuary 2001 he finds a dead woman in his garden. The finding brings about brutal happenings with ramifications far into a motorcycle group in the woods in the east of Norway. For the first time we are introduced to the police investigators Stribolt and Vaage, who are on the case.