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Night shadows

Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, 1988-2022
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The small community of Akranes is devastated when a young man dies in a mysterious house fire, and when Detective Elma and her colleagues from West Iceland CID discover the fire was arson, they become embroiled in an increasingly perplexing case involving multiple suspects. What's more, the dead man's final online search raises fears that they could be investigating not one murder, but two. A few months after the fire, a young Dutch woman takes a job as an au pair in Iceland, desperate to make a new life for herself after the death of her father. But the seemingly perfect family who employs her turns out to have problems of its own and she soon discovers that she's running out of people to turn to. As the police begin to home in on the truth, Elma, already struggling to come to terms with a life-changing event, finds herself in mortal danger s it becomes clear that someone has shocking secrets they'll do anything to hide...
Main title:
Night shadows / Eva Björg Ægisdóttir ; translated by Victoria Cribb.
Imprint:
London : Orenda Books, 2022.
Collation:
341 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Translated from the Icelandic.
ISBN:
9781914585203 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
839.6935FICTION
Language:
EnglishIcelandic
BRN:
1207926
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