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The Darkness

The Darkness

If you like Saga Noren from The Bridge, then you'll love Hulda Hermannsdottir

Summary

FEATURED IN THE TIMES TOP 100 CRIME NOVELS SINCE 1945

SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES


'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

Reviews

  • An intelligent, provocative whodunit with a killer twist
    Ian Rankin

About the author

Ragnar Jónasson

Ragnar Jónasson is an international number one bestselling author who has sold five million books in thirty-six countries worldwide. He was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, where he also teaches copyright law at university, and is the co-chair of the Iceland Noir literature festival. He has previously worked on radio and television and, from the age of seventeen, has translated fourteen of Agatha Christie’s novels. He has won multiple awards for his crime fiction internationally, as well as a special jury recognition in Iceland for his poetry. His critically acclaimed international bestseller The Darkness is coming to TV screens, starring Lena Olin, Jack Bannon and Douglas Henshall, and Ridley Scott will be producing Outside as a feature film.
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