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Author: Jonasson, Ragnar, Jakobsdottir, Katrin

Crime & mystery

Published on 25 April 2024 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 384 pages
198 x 128 x 22 | 270g

An ice-cold mystery haunts Reykjavík in 1986, in this heart-stopping crime novel co-written by the Icelandic Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdottir‘A classic crime novel, its noir at its finest’ The Sunday Times‘Nordic noir at its most authoritative’ Financial Times—What happened to Lara?Iceland, 1956. Fourteen-year-old Lara spends the summer on the small island of Videy, just off the coast of Reykjavík.

In early August, the girl disappears without a trace.

The mystery becomes Iceland’s greatest unsolved case. What happened to the young girl? Is she still alive? Did she leave the island, or did something happen to her there? Thirty years later, journalist Valur Robertsson begins his own investigation into Lara’s case. But as he draws closer to discovering the secret, it’s soon clear that this is a mystery someone will stop at nothing to keep unsolved…

—‘A crime novel with a difference’ Guardian‘A beautifully constructed mystery by two super smart partners in crime’ Anthony Horowitz ‘I read all 349 pages in one go and enjoyed every second…The twist at the halfway point of the book hits the reader like a wave of the ice cold Atlantic Ocean’ Fréttablaðið Newspaper‘Loved it!’ Ann Cleeves