Girls Who Lie

  • Scandi-Noir; Crime; Thriller; Mystery

  • May 2021

    • Estonia: Eesti Raamat

    • ​France: EDLM

    • Germany: Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch

    • Hungary: Nouvion​

    • ​Iceland: Veröld Publishers

    • Netherlands:​ De Fontein

    • Russia: AST

    • ​Spain: Atico de los Libros

    • World English Language: Orenda Books

Forbidden Iceland Book 2

When single mother Maríanna disappears from her home, leaving an apologetic note on the kitchen table, everyone assumes that she’s taken her own life … until her body is found on the Grábrók lava fields seven months later, clearly the victim of murder. Her neglected fifteen-year-old daughter Hekla has been placed in foster care, but is her perfect new life hiding something sinister?
 
Fifteen years earlier, a desperate new mother lies in a maternity ward, unable to look at her own child, the start of an odd and broken relationship that leads to a shocking tragedy.
 
Police officer Elma and her colleagues take on the case, which becomes increasingly complex, as the number of suspects grows and new light is shed on Maríanna’s past – and the childhood of a girl who never was like the others…

Breathtakingly chilling and tantalisingly twisty, Girls Who Lie is at once a startling, tense psychological thriller and a sophisticated police procedural, marking Eva Björg Ægisdottir as one of the most exciting new names in crime fiction.

  • SHORTLISTED FOR THE STORYTEL AWARD 2021

Selected Praise

An exciting and harrowing tale from one of Iceland’s rising stars.
— Ragnar Jónasson, author of the Dark Iceland series
Complex, gripping and moving.
— The Times
Eerie and chilling. I loved every word!
— ​Lesley Kara, author of The Rumour, Who Did You Tell?

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