The Darkness: If you like Saga Noren from The Bridge, then you’ll love Hulda Hermannsdottir
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FEATURED IN THE TIMES TOP 100 CRIME NOVELS SINCE 1945SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES ‘An intelligent, provocative whodunit with a killer twist’ IAN RANKIN ____________ 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? ____________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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Weight | 0.248 kg |
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Dimensions | 2.1 × 12.8 × 19.8 cm |
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Format | Paperback |
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Pages | 352 |
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Year Published | 2018-10-4 |
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Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
ISBN 10 | 1405930802 |
About The Author | Ragnar Jónasson (Author) 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. He is currently writing a novel with the Icelandic Prime Minister, Katrín Jakobsdóttir. 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 (Translator) 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. |
Review Quote | An intelligent, provocative whodunit with a killer twist |
Other text | Superb |
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