FEATURED IN THE TIMES TOP 100 CRIME NOVELS SINCE 1945
SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES
''An intelligent, provocative whodunit with a killer twist'' IAN RANKIN
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A body is found off the coast of Iceland.
A cursory police investigation calls it suicide. She''s just another statistic, soon forgotten.
But not by Reykjavik Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsd-ttir.
Difficult and unconventional, Hulda is being forced into early retirement.
Offered one last cold case to investigate she chooses Elena''s.
And when she discovers another woman vanished at a similar time, she believes a killer roams free.
With days before she''s stripped of her badge, can Hulda catch the killer alone?
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THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR
''Superb . . . chilling . . . one of the greatest tragic heroines of contemporary detective fiction''Sunday Times
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