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  • Crime; Mystery; Scandi-Noir

  • September 2017

    • UK & Commonwealth (exc. Canada): Orenda Books

    • USA & Canada: St Martin's Press

Dark Iceland Series Book 5

Two days before Christmas, a young woman is found dead beneath the cliffs of the deserted village of Kálfshamarvík. Did she jump, or did something more sinister take place beneath the lighthouse and the abandoned old house on the remote rocky outcrop? With winter closing in and the snow falling relentlessly, Ari Thór Arason discovers that the victim's mother and young sister also lost their lives in this same spot, twenty-five years earlier.

​As the dark history and its secrets of the village are unveiled, and the death toll begins to rise, the Siglufjordur detectives must race against the clock to find the killer, before another tragedy takes place.

  • BEST CRIME FICTION IN THE TIMES 2017

Selected Praise

Traditional and beautifully finessed... morally more equivocal than most traditional whodunnits, and it offers alluring glimpses of darker, and infinitely more threatening horizons.
— Independent
“Chilling, poetic beauty... a must read!”
— Peter James, author of the Roy Grace​ series
Jónasson’s books have breathed new life into Nordic noir.
— Sunday Express

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