The Girl Who Died

Intriguing … This spooky novel draws on Icelandic sagas to create an atmosphere of growing menace. * The Times, CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR *An intensely gripping mystery, Ragnar Jonasson is a poet of the “dark, wet and cold”, of the “gloom, cold and rain”. The climactic revelations are credible and moving * The Times, BOOK OF THE MONTH *A creepy tale * The Times *A master of the Icelandic thriller * New York Post *With the bleakest of landscapes and some supernatural undertones, this is one creepy thriller that’ll have you leaving ALL the lights on * Vogue Scandinavia *Spooky, sophisticated. Jonasson is strong on atmosphere * Sunday Times *Invigorating Iceland-set slice of Nordic Noir * Daily Mail *With his trademark elegant prose and atmospheric sense of place, Jonasson weaves a slow-burning, haunting tale with a chilling ending * Daily Record *A chilling psychological thriller with an unexpected ending that will haunt the reader * The Canberra Times *Haunting psychological novel tinged with the supernatural * Daily Record *

Ragnar Jónasson is an international number one bestselling author who has sold over two million books in thirty-two countries worldwide. He was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he also works as an investment banker and teaches copyright law at Reykjavik University. He has previously worked on radio and television, including as a TV news reporter for the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, and, from the age of seventeen, has translated fourteen of Agatha Christie’s novels. His critically acclaimed international bestseller The Darkness is soon to be a major TV series.

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