The darkness - Ragnar Jnasson

FEATURED IN THE TIMES TOP 100 CRIME NOVELS SINCE 1945

If you love BBC's The Bridge, then you'll love The Darkness . . .

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A young woman is found dead on a remote Icelandic beach.

She came looking for safety, but instead she found a watery grave.

A hasty police investigation determines her death as suicide . . .

When Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdttir of the Reykjavik police is forced into early retirement, she is told she can investigate one last cold case of her choice - and she knows which one.

What she discovers is far darker than suicide . . . And no one is telling Hulda the whole story.

When her own colleagues try to put the brakes on her investigation, Hulda has just days to discover the truth. A truth she will risk her own life to find.
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THE SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH

'A superb thriller' Sunday Times

'It adds several shades of darkness to Nordic noir . . . a deeply shocking climax' ANTHONY HOROWITZ

'Chilling - a must-read' Peter James

'A true masterpiece . . . a plot full of twists and turns and an ending that leaves you gasping for air' Yrsa Sigurardttir

'Was gripped from the start of this brilliantly told story. And left wide-eyed with shock at the ending' Fiona Barton

'Page-turning stuff with an unexpected ending!' James Swallow

'As chilling as the nip in the Icelandic air' Choice Magazine