The spellbinding debut and international sensation being published in thirty countries featuring ThΓ³ra GudmundsdΓ³ttir, a smart, sexy lawyer and investigator whose hunt for a modern murderer points to a very oddβand evilβchapter in Iceland's past
After the body of a young German studentβwith his eyes cut out and strange symbols carved into his chestβis discovered at a university in ReykjavΓk, the police waste no time in making an arrest. The victim's family isn't convinced they have the right man, however, so they ask ThΓ³ra GudmundsdΓ³ttir, attorney and single mother of two, to investigate. The fee is considerableβmore than enough to make things a bit easier for the struggling lawyer and her children.
It's not long before ThΓ³ra and Matthew Reich, her new associate, discover something unusual about the deceased student: He had been obsessed with the country's grisly history of torture, execution, and witch huntsβa topic made all the more peculiar by the fact that unlike witch hunts in other countries, those in Iceland had targeted men . . . not women.
As ThΓ³ra and Matthew dig deeper, they make the connection between long-bygone customs and the student's murder. But the shadow of dark traditions conceals secrets in both the past and the present, and the investigators soon realize that nothing is as it seems . . . and that no one can be trusted.
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