<p><b>THE BRILLIANT SECOND BOOK IN THE BESTSELLING HILDUR SERIES, SOON TO BE A TV SHOW!<br /></b><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><b>Translated by Kristian London</b><br /><br /><b>Praise for Satu Ramoe:<br /></b><br />'Satu Ramoe's Hildur series is a wildly successful publishing phenomenon that has put the genre of "Nordic blue" on Europe's literary map' <i><b>The Guardian</b><br /></i><br />'Atmospheric and startlingly original' <i><b>Sunday Times</b></i><br /><br />'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' <i><b>Max Seeck, NYT and Der Spiegel bestselling author</b><br /></i><br />'Ramoe 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' <i><b>Helsingin Sanomat</b></i></p>