Darkness: Hidden Iceland Series, Book One The

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A body is found off the coast of Iceland. A young Russian woman, Elena, came to make a fresh start. Instead she found death. A cursory police investigation calls it suicide. Another statistic, she's soon forgotten . . .But not by Reykjavik Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsd ttir. Difficult and unconventional, Hulda is being forced into early retirement. Offered one last case to investigate she chooses Elena's. On discovering another woman has vanished, she believes a killer roams free.Her colleagues, however, think she's out to cause trouble. With days to find the truth, can Hulda catch the killer alone?A body is found off the coast of Iceland. A young Russian woman, Elena, came to make a fresh start. Instead she found death. A cursory police investigation calls it suicide. Another statistic, she's soon forgotten . . .But not by Reykjavik Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsd ttir. Difficult and unconventional, Hulda is being forced into early retirement. Offered one last case to investigate she chooses Elena's. On discovering another woman has vanished, she believes a killer roams free.Her colleagues, however, think she's out to cause trouble. With days to find the truth, can Hulda catch the killer alone?
Ragnar J nasson was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he works as a writer and a lawyer and teaches copyright law at Reykjavik University. He has previously worked on radio and television, including as a TV news reporter for the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, and, from the age of seventeen, has translated fourteen of Agatha Christie's novels. He is an international Number One bestseller. The Darkness is the first novel in his Hidden Iceland series, to be followed by The Island and The Mist.Victoria Cribb studied and worked in Iceland for many years. She has translated more than 25 novels from the Icelandic and, in 2017, she received the Or stir honorary translation award for services to Icelandic literature.