An Unfortunate Death is the third book in the series featuring Detective Inspector Stig Alm in the 1990s. A woman arrives at the police station requesting help. Her five-year-old daughter has had a dream in which their Greek nanny is begging to be buried in a cemetery. Is the nanny, who disappeared without a trace four years earlier, a murder victim? Stig Alm would rather not find out, but eventually he's obliged to go on a ghost hunt.