From the author of The Mysterious Case of The Missing Crime Writer comes the next mystery featuring detective Helgi Reykdal.
When Bergþóra Úlfsdóttir, Helgi's ex-girlfriend, is found dead in her home just before Christmas, Helgi is brought onto the case-but this time, he's a suspect of her murder, given his complicated relationship with Bergþóra. The timing is suspicious: just before her own death, Bergþóra fatally hit Helgi's new girlfriend, Anita, with her car, ruining the future he'd hoped to build with her.
Meanwhile, Helgi has also been looking into the disappearance of Hulda Hermannsdóttir; the woman who'd held his office before him supposedly died of suicide but Helgi remains unconvinced. As he digs into this old case, it begins to seem as though Hulda's disappearance has more layers-layers that draw connections between Bergþóra's and Anita's deaths and Hulda's disappearance. RAGNAR JÓNASSON is the award-winning Icelandic author of the international bestselling Hulda series, the Dark Iceland series, and standalone crime fiction, with five million copies sold across 36 territories. Ragnar was also an executive producer of the CBS Studios TV series The Darkness, based on the first novel in his Hulda series, starring Lena Olin and directed by Lasse Hallström. His novel Outside is being developed for the screen by Ridley Scott.
"Welcome to some powerful nordic noir that is partly a novel of suspense, with the shadow of Agatha Christie, and partly terrifying in its own right."
firstCLUE
"Reflecting their author's passion for classic whodunits, both Helgi and several other characters are inspired in their actions and deductions by half a dozen golden age mysteries . . . it's fascinating to watch the traditional tropes Jónasson does and doesn't borrow."
Kirkus Reviews
"Steeped in Golden Age mystery tropes, this third novel in the Helgi Reykdal series features both the most meaningful crossover with Jonasson's Hidden Iceland series so far and Helgi's most intriguing chapter yet."
