by Raynar Jonasson
Translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb
[London]: Michael Joseph, (2018).
First U.K. edition, first printing.
"Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkness is an atmospheric thriller from Ragnar Jonasson, one of the most exciting names in Nordic Noir.
The
body of a young Russian woman washes up on an Icelandic shore. After a
cursory investigation, the death is declared a suicide and the case is
quietly closed.
Over a year later Detective Inspector Hulda
Hermannsdottir of the Reykjavík police is forced into early retirement
at 64. She dreads the loneliness, and the memories of her dark past that
threaten to come back to haunt her. But before she leaves she is given
two weeks to solve a single cold case of her choice. She knows which
one: the Russian woman whose hope for asylum ended on the dark, cold
shore of an unfamiliar country. Soon Hulda discovers that another young
woman vanished at the same time, and that no one is telling her the
whole story. Even her colleagues in the police seem determined to put
the brakes on her investigation. Meanwhile the clock is ticking.
Hulda will find the killer, even if it means putting her own life in danger."--Fantastic Fiction.
"A bullet train of a novel"--Gregg Hurwitz.
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