The Darkness
£8.99
After being unceremoniously forced into early retirement at the age of 64, Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir of the Reykjavik Police is refusing to go quietly. Hulda is told to pick a cold case to investigate for two more weeks, and then she must pack up her desk. She knows just the one. A young woman found dead on the seaweed-covered rocks of the Vatnsleysuströnd who was waiting to be granted asylum. Her death was ruled a suicide after a slapdash investigation. But when Hulda starts to ask questions she soon realises that there was something more to this case.
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‘An intelligent, provocative whodunit with a killer twist’ IAN RANKIN
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A body is found off the coast of Iceland.
A cursory police investigation calls it suicide. She’s just another statistic, soon forgotten.
But not by Reykjavik Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir.
Difficult and unconventional, Hulda is being forced into early retirement.
Offered one last cold case to investigate she chooses Elena’s.
And when she discovers another woman vanished at a similar time, she believes a killer roams free.
With days before she’s stripped of her badge, can Hulda catch the killer alone?
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THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR
‘Superb . . . chilling . . . one of the greatest tragic heroines of contemporary detective fiction’ Sunday Times
‘Outstanding’ Daily Mail
‘Expertly plotted, with an ending that’s a true shocker’ Guardian
‘Brilliantly effective. Each book enraptures us’ The Times Literary Supplement
‘Magnificently dark and twisted and that ending – blimey!’ C. J. Tudor, bestselling author of The Chalk Man
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