1995: A young German woman disappears in the Westfjords of Iceland, but the case is quickly forgotten. After all, its not uncommon for foreigners who come to Iceland to vanish, and the police are too busy investigating a fatal car accident, recovering two bodies from the cold waters of the sea.

2022: Detective Hildur Rúnarsdóttir returns from a surfing holiday in Hawaii to a good life. The renovation of her childhood home is progressing, and her colleague and friend Jakob Johanson has permanently joined her in Iceland. But when Hildur visits her family friend, Helga, in a nursing home, she is presented with surprising new details about her mother, Rakel. Then a cruise ship carrying a large group of tourists arrives in Ísafjör?ur, bringing a world of trouble with them.

As the bodies pile up, Hildur and Jakob must look to the past to figure out what lies in front of them.

Translated by Kristian London

Praise for Satu Rämö:

Satu Rämös Hildur series is a wildly successful publishing phenomenon that has put the genre of "Nordic blue" on Europes literary map The Guardian

Atmospheric and startlingly original Sunday Times

Hildur Rúnarsdóttir, a police detective who surfs the icy waters of Iceland, barrels into the genre like a tsunami. This book must be read in one sitting Max Seeck, NYT and Der Spiegel bestselling author