The Darkness

ISBN-13: 9781405930802 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 352 str.

Ragnar Jonasson

Opis

'Superb . . . chilling . . . one of the greatest tragic heroines of contemporary detective fiction' Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month____________A body is found off the coast of Iceland.A young Russian woman, Elena, hoped to find 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 Hermannsdóttir.Difficult and unconventional, Hulda is being forced into early retirement.Offered one last cold 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 before she's stripped of her badge, can Hulda catch the killer alone?____________'Expertly plotted, with an ending that's a true shocker' Guardian'Magnificently dark and twisted and that ending - blimey!' C. J. Tudor, bestselling author of The Chalk Man

Recenzje

An intelligent, provocative whodunit with a killer twist Ian Rankin

O autorze

Ragnar Jónasson is an international number one bestselling author who has sold over three million books in thirty-four countries worldwide. He was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, where he also works as an investment banker and teaches copyright law at Reykjavík 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. His critically acclaimed international bestseller The Darkness is soon to be a major TV series, and Ridley Scott will be producing Outside as a feature film.

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 Orðstír honourary translation award for services to Icelandic literature.