The Grave in the Ice

THE THRILLING SECOND BOOK IN THE ICELAND-SET HILDUR CRIME SERIES.Detective Hildur Runarsdottir and her trainee Jakob are plagued by their own demons while working on the chilly west coast of Iceland: Hildur by the disappearance of her younger sisters twenty-five years ago and Jakob by a custody battle that has left him unable to see his son.When a local politician is found shot dead on a ski trail, the two must put aside their personal problems to investigate the murder. While initially thought to be a crime of passion, there are much darker secrets hiding beneath the surface. Hildur and Jakob soon realise that even the dead can't stay buried forever.Translated by Kristian LondonPraise for Satu Raemoe:'Satu Raemoe's Hildur series is a wildly successful publishing phenomenon that has put the genre of "Nordic blue" on Europe's literary map' The Guardian'Atmospheric and startlingly original' Sunday Times'Hildur Runarsdottir, 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'Raemoe plans to continue Hildur's story, and if she does it as well as in this, her debut novel, she may become a significant new name in Nordic crime fiction' Helsingin Sanomat

Autorentext

Satu Rämö is a bestselling Finnish-born crime author who has lived in Iceland for the past twenty years. Her Nordic crime Hildur series has sold over one million copies worldwide and has been a bestseller in Finland, Iceland, Sweden and Germany. A TV adaptation will premiere in 2026 and the series has also been adapted for the stage. Satu has also published numerous bestselling, prizewinning non-fiction titles in her native Finland.

She lives with her Icelandic husband and two children in the small town of Ísafjörður in northwest Iceland.

Klappentext

The standalone sequel to the international bestseller, The Clues in the Fjord, featuring Hildur Rnarsdttir, the only police detective in the isolated Westfjords of Iceland.