The Prey - the gripping international bestseller and Sunday Times Crime Book of the Year 2023

''Mesmerising and atmospheric, with entrancing descriptions of landscape'' *** A SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR ***

THE FIRST PHONE CALL SHOCKS A FAMILY

A box of photo albums is found in the attic of a house in H-fn, a small fishing village on the south coast of Iceland. The new owners return it to the man who sold them the house, along with a muddied child''s shoe with a name written on the sole: Salvor. The man is baffled; they never knew anyone called that. Shortly after the phone rings - it''s the nursing home where his mother, an Alzheimer''s patient, lives. She''s suffered a heart attack and the doctors don''t expect her to live much longer. The nurse asks him to let his sister, Salv-r, know as well. Their mother has been asking for her.

THE SECOND TRACKS TWO MISSING COUPLES

J-hanna is a member of a search and rescue team in H-fn and she''s searching for two couples from Reykjavik. Their phones''