‘Jónasson is an automatic must-read for me . . . possibly the best Scandi writer working today’ LEE CHILD ‘A master of the Icelandic thriller’ NEW YORK POST As snow blankets Reykjavík and Christmas approaches, young detective Helgi is looking forward to a quiet holiday - until those plans are torn away in a flash. One month after his girlfriend Aníta is killed in a car accident, he returns to work, haunted by loss and rage. The driver - Helgi's ex-girlfriend Bergþóra, a violent alcoholic whose abuse he kept secret - insists Aníta's death was an accident and walks free. To escape his mounting despair, Helgi throws himself into the unsolved disappearance of his predecessor, Hulda, a retired officer long presumed dead. But as he follows the traces she left behind, the lines between her past and his present begin to blur . . . When Bergþóra is later found lifeless in her bath, suspicion falls squarely on Helgi. With his own colleagues turning against him, can he uncover the truth and clear his name before his time runs out?