At the age of 17, John Frey sat on death row in an Ohio prison, convicted of killing his girlfriend. But the thirst for vengeance by the girl's father goes unsatisfied when Frey dies of a heart condition before he can be executed.

Fast-forward several years to Sweden where John Schwarz has been arrested for brutally assaulting a passenger on a ferry. DI Ewert Grens feels that something isn't quite right about Schwarz when he learns he's been living under a false identity. Grens is proven right when Schwarz's fingerprints turn up as a match for the supposedly dead John Frey.

A multilayered plot with a unique twist, CELL 8 is a gripping rendering of the disturbing repercussions of the death penalty.