The Grave in the Ice

<p><b>THE THRILLING SECOND BOOK IN THE ICELAND-SET HILDUR CRIME SERIES.</b><br><br>Detective Hildur Rúnarsdottir 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><u>Praise for Satu Rämö:<br></u></b><br>'Satu Rämö'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 Rúnarsdóttir, 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>'Rämö 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>