Hildur Rúnarsdóttir, a police detective who surfs the icy waters of Iceland, barrels into the genre like a tsunami. This book <b>must be read in one sitting</b>.

Max Seeck, NYT and Der Spiegel bestselling author

In addition to the fine and moody description of the milieu, the plotting of the novel is <b>cleverly woven</b>, and the characters in their everyday life are believable. Rämö plans to continue Hildur's story, and if she does it as well as in this, her debut novel, she may become a <b>significant new name</b> in Nordic crime fiction.

Helsingin Sanomat

<b>Atmospheric </b>and <b>startlingly original </b>... Rämö brings an outsider's eye to a novel steeped in Icelandic history, and <b>the effect is mesmerising</b>

Sunday Times

'Satu Rämö'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 TimesHildur Rúnarsdottir is the only police detective working on the isolated west coast of Iceland. She is desperate to forget her traumatic past by burying herself in her cases alongside her new trainee, Jakob Johanson. But Jakob's life has its own complications, and it soon becomes clear that neither can run from their pasts for long. When a local man is found with his throat slit, underneath an avalanche that has buried much of the evidence, Hildur and Jakob must set their own problems aside and unravel the dark secrets to expose a killer . . .Translated by Kristian LondonPraise for Satu Rämö:'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'Rämö 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
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'Satu Rämö'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 TimesHildur Rúnarsdottir is the only police detective working on the isolated west coast of Iceland.
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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.
A dark and twisted Nordic noir novel, set in the chilling Iceland fjords. #1 bestseller across all formats in Finland with almost 200,000 copies sold.
The Clues in the Fjord is the first book in the Hildur trilogy, featuring head of the missing's children's unit of the Ísafjörður police, Hildur Rúnarsdottir

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781804188408
Publisert
2024-10-10
Utgiver
Vendor
Zaffre
Vekt
245 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
352

Forfatter

Biographical note

Satu Rämö moved to Iceland twenty years ago as an economics exchange student, but instead of macroeconomics she ended up studying Icelandic culture, literature and mythology before forging a successful career as a blogger, writer, coach and mentor. Satu has published numerous bestselling, prizewinning non-fiction titles in her native Finland. Hildur is her fiction debut. She lives with her Icelandic husband and two children in the small town of Ísafjörður in northwest Iceland.