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In her third appearance, actress Enora Andressen leads the search for the boy who broke into a woman's flat and threatened her with death before he vanished.

Since an accident left the blind Pavel Sieger, her favorite scriptwriter, paralyzed, Enora’s dedicated herself to making sure he’s well cared for. Now one of his dedicated medical minders, nurse Carrie Tollman, has been the victim of an encounter so harrowing Enora has to drag the details out of her. She awoke to find a teenager bending over her. The intruder stared at her, assured her that he can get through any locked door, attempted to masturbate, and then, when she laughed at him and ordered him to leave, told her that if she shared her story with anyone else, “he’d come back and kill me. Just like he’d killed the others.” Sure enough, soon after Enora unearths enough information to allow the Exmouth police to arrest a boy they then have to release for lack of evidence, she returns to Carrie’s place to find her slashed to death. Even when an oddly literal clue allows Enora to put a name to the presumed culprit, he’s nowhere to be found. Enora’s only solace is the distractions of an unwelcome visit from her teenage son, Malo, and a much more welcome romance with builder/sailor/“chancer” Deko, a relationship that despite some exhilarating adventures turns out to have disturbing complications of its own.

Not so much mysterious as creepy and just plain sad.