THE GRAVE IN THE ICE PB – SATU RAMO

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 London Praise for Satu Ramo: Satu Ramo 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 Ramo 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