Product Description
The Darkness
Author(s): Ragnar Jónasson
Format: Paperback
Featured in the Times Top 100 Crime Novels Since 1945
Now a Major Channel 4 TV Drama
'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?
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
About the Author
Ragnar Jónasson is the award-winning Icelandic author of the international bestselling Hulda series, the Dark Iceland series, and standalone crime fiction, with five million copies sold across 36 territories. Ragnar was also an executive producer of the CBS Studios TV series The Darkness, based on the first novel in his Hulda series, starring Lena Olin and directed by Lasse Hallström. His novel Outside is being developed for the screen by Ridley Scott.
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