Girls Who Lie
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Scandi-Noir; Crime; Thriller; Mystery
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May 2021
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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