The Darkness

  • Crime; Mystery; Scandi-Noir;

  • March 2018

    • UK & Commonwealth: Michael Joseph Books

    • USA & Canada: Minotaur Books, St Martin's

Hidden Iceland Series Book 1

At sixty-four, Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir of the Reykjavík Police is about to take on her last case before she retires: A young woman, an asylum seeker from Russia, found murdered on the seaweed covered rocks of the Vatnsleysuströnd in Iceland.

When Hulda starts to ask questions it isn't long before she realises that no one can be trusted, and that no one is telling the whole truth. Spanning Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkness is a thrilling new crime thriller from one of the biggest new names in Scandi-Noir.

Selected Praise

Ragnar Jónasson writes with a chilling, poetic beauty - a must read addition to the growing canon of Iceland Noir
— Peter James
Totally gripped.
— Ian Rankin
.. a very efficient piece of work... Jónasson has the full measure of the Nordic noir genre, and pushes all the requisite buttons.
— Barry Forshaw, Financial Times

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