The haunting final chapter to an award-winning series… And a final reckoning…
With the fate of her missing sister, Ísafold, finally uncovered, Áróra feels a fragile relief as the search that consumed her life draws to a close. But when Ísafold’s boyfriend – the prime suspect in her disappearance – is found dead at the same site where Ísafold’s body was discovered, Áróra’s grip on reality starts to unravel … and the mystery remains far from solved.
To distract herself, she dives headfirst into a money-laundering case that her friend Daníel is investigating. But she soon finds that there is more than meets the eye and, once again, all leads point towards Engihjalli, the street where Ísafold lived and died, and a series of shocking secrets that could both explain and endanger everything…
Icelandic crime writer Lilja Sigurðardóttir was born in the town of Akranes in 1972 and raised in Mexico, Sweden, Spain and Iceland. An award-winning playwright, Lilja has written eleven crime novels, including Snare, Trap and Cage, making up the Reykjavík Noir trilogy, and her standalone thriller Betrayal, all of which have hit bestseller lists worldwide.
Snare was longlisted for the CWA International Dagger, Cage won Best Icelandic Crime Novel of the Year and was a Guardian Book of the Year, and Betrayal was shortlisted for the prestigious Glass Key Award and won Icelandic Crime Novel of the Year. The film rights for the Reykjavík Noir trilogy have been bought by Glassriver.
Cold as Hell, the first book in the An Áróra Investigation series, was published in the UK in 2021 and was followed by Red as Blood, White as Snow and Dark as Night. TV rights to the series have been bought by Studio Zentral in Germany.
Lilja lives in Reykjavík with her partner and a brood of chickens.
My thoughts: The police are still investigating the deaths of Áróra’s sister and her abusive partner, now that their bodies have been found. The theory that Bjorn killed her and then fled to Canada has been destroyed and now they need to find out what really happened.
Daniel asks Áróra to help with his latest case, hoping to distract her, he’s looking into a chain of coffee shops that seem to be making money that doesn’t entirely add up in terms of their customer numbers.
The police discover a link between Bjorn and a known local drug dealer and thug. Will this lead to answers about Isafold’s death?
Another gripping instalment in this series, and Áróra might finally get some closure around her sister’s tragic end.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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