*SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGER AWARD 2025* ' Satu Rämö'
s Hildur series is a wildly successful publishing phenomenon that has put the genre of "Nordic
blue" on Europe' s literary map' The Guardian ' Atmospheric and startlingly
original' Sunday Times Hildur Rúnarsdottir is the only police detective working on the
isolated west coast of Iceland. She is desperate to forget her traumatic past by burying
herself in her cases alongside her new trainee Jakob Johanson. But Jakob' s life has its
own complications and it soon becomes clear that neither can run from their pasts for long.
When a local man is found with his throat slit underneath an avalanche that has buried much of
the evidence Hildur and Jakob must set their own problems aside and unravel the dark secrets
to expose a killer . . . Translated by Kristian London Praise for Satu Rämö: ' 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' Max Seeck NYT and Der Spiegel
bestselling author ' 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' Helsingin Sanomat
