The book is a perfect blend of police procedural and psychological thriller, as Elma and her team are involved in two investigations which take some time to be linked with the disturbing connections unveiled between the two, so the book has an easy pace, and a sinister and gradual unfolding of the investigation. Following The Creak On The Stairsand Girls Who Lie, Detective Elma Jónsdóttir and her colleagues at the West Iceland CID return for another troubling investigation… In the blistering heatwave it was incredibly good to escape to Iceland for the third book in Eva Björg Ægisdóttir’s Forbidden Iceland series. 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 as it becomes clear that someone has secrets they’ll do anything to hide… But the seemingly perfect family who employs her turns out to have problems of its own and she soon discovers she is running out of people to turn to. A few months before 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. What’s more, the dead man’s final online search raises fears that they could be investigating not one murder, but two. 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.
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