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THE BRILLIANT FOURTH BOOK IN THE BESTSELLING HILDUR SERIES, SOON TO BE A TV SHOW!
1995: A young German woman disappears in the Westfjords of Iceland, but the case is quickly forgotten. After all, it's not uncommon for foreigners who come to Iceland to vanish, and the police are too busy investigating a fatal car accident, recovering two bodies from the cold waters of the sea.
2022: Detective Hildur Rúnarsdóttir returns from a surfing holiday in Hawaii to a good life. The renovation of her childhood home is progressing, and her colleague and friend Jakob Johanson has permanently joined her in Iceland. But when Hildur visits her family friend, Helga, in a nursing home, she is presented with surprising new details about her mother, Rakel. Then a cruise ship carrying a large group of tourists arrives in Ísafjörður, bringing a world of trouble with them.
As the bodies pile up, Hildur and Jakob must look to the past to figure out what lies in front of them.
Translated by Kristian London
Praise for Satu Rämö:
'Satu Rämö's Hildur series is a wildly successful publishing phenomenon that has put the genre of "Nordic blue" on Europe's literary map' The Guardian
'Atmospheric and startlingly original' Sunday Times
'Hildur Rúnarsdóttir, a police detective who surfs the icy waters of Iceland, barrels into the genre like a tsunami. This book must be read in one sitting' Max Seeck, NYT and Der Spiegel bestselling author
'Rämö plans to continue Hildur's story, and if she does it as well as in this, her debut novel, she may become a significant new name in Nordic crime fiction' Helsingin Sanomat Satu Rämö is a bestselling Finnish-born crime author who has lived in Iceland for the past twenty years. Her Nordic crime Hildur series has sold over one million copies worldwide and has been a bestseller in Finland, Iceland, Sweden and Germany. A TV adaptation will premiere in 2026 and the series has also been adapted for the stage. Satu has also published numerous bestselling, prizewinning non-fiction titles in her native Finland.
She lives with her Icelandic husband and two children in the small town of Ísafjörður in northwest Iceland. The fourth book in the international bestselling Hildur series, soon to be a TV show of the same name. ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD: Over a million copies have been sold in the Hildur series around the world. INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: The series is a top 10 bestseller in Germany, Iceland, Sweden, and Finland, and has been sold in 23 territories. TV SHOW: The series has been adapted into a TV show, with distribution details to come soon! AWARDS: Satu is an award-winning author: Petrona Award for 2025; Nextory E-Book Award for Fiction 2023; Supla Audiobook of the Year Award 2023; CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger 2025 (shortlisted); BookBeat 'Newcomer of the Year' 2022 (shortlisted)
1995: A young German woman disappears in the Westfjords of Iceland, but the case is quickly forgotten. After all, it's not uncommon for foreigners who come to Iceland to vanish, and the police are too busy investigating a fatal car accident, recovering two bodies from the cold waters of the sea.
2022: Detective Hildur Rúnarsdóttir returns from a surfing holiday in Hawaii to a good life. The renovation of her childhood home is progressing, and her colleague and friend Jakob Johanson has permanently joined her in Iceland. But when Hildur visits her family friend, Helga, in a nursing home, she is presented with surprising new details about her mother, Rakel. Then a cruise ship carrying a large group of tourists arrives in Ísafjörður, bringing a world of trouble with them.
As the bodies pile up, Hildur and Jakob must look to the past to figure out what lies in front of them.
Translated by Kristian London
Praise for Satu Rämö:
'Satu Rämö's Hildur series is a wildly successful publishing phenomenon that has put the genre of "Nordic blue" on Europe's literary map' The Guardian
'Atmospheric and startlingly original' Sunday Times
'Hildur Rúnarsdóttir, a police detective who surfs the icy waters of Iceland, barrels into the genre like a tsunami. This book must be read in one sitting' Max Seeck, NYT and Der Spiegel bestselling author
'Rämö plans to continue Hildur's story, and if she does it as well as in this, her debut novel, she may become a significant new name in Nordic crime fiction' Helsingin Sanomat Satu Rämö is a bestselling Finnish-born crime author who has lived in Iceland for the past twenty years. Her Nordic crime Hildur series has sold over one million copies worldwide and has been a bestseller in Finland, Iceland, Sweden and Germany. A TV adaptation will premiere in 2026 and the series has also been adapted for the stage. Satu has also published numerous bestselling, prizewinning non-fiction titles in her native Finland.
She lives with her Icelandic husband and two children in the small town of Ísafjörður in northwest Iceland. The fourth book in the international bestselling Hildur series, soon to be a TV show of the same name. ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD: Over a million copies have been sold in the Hildur series around the world. INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: The series is a top 10 bestseller in Germany, Iceland, Sweden, and Finland, and has been sold in 23 territories. TV SHOW: The series has been adapted into a TV show, with distribution details to come soon! AWARDS: Satu is an award-winning author: Petrona Award for 2025; Nextory E-Book Award for Fiction 2023; Supla Audiobook of the Year Award 2023; CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger 2025 (shortlisted); BookBeat 'Newcomer of the Year' 2022 (shortlisted)
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