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Also by Michael Ridpath:

Far North, August 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Where The Shadows Lie, August 2011
Hardcover

WHERE THE SHADOWS LIE
By: Michael Ridpath

Minotaur Books
August 2011
On Sale: August 2, 2011
Featuring: Detective Magnus Jonson
352 pages
ISBN: 0312675038
EAN: 9780312675035
Hardcover
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Mystery Police Procedural

An ancient saga. A modern legend. A secret worth killing for.

Amid Iceland’s wild, volcanic landscape, rumors swirl of an ancient manuscript inscribed with a long-lost saga about a ring of terrible power. A rediscovered saga alone would be worth a fortune, but, if the rumors can be believed, there is something much more valuable about this one. Something worth killing for. Something that will cost Professor Agnar Haraldsson his life.

Untangling murder from myth is Iceland-born, Boston-raised detective Magnus Jonson. On loan to the Icelandic Police Force for his own protection after a Massachusetts drug cartel puts a bounty on his head, Magnus is eager work the Haraldsson case, a rare lethal crime for the island nation. But his unorthodox investigative technique soon gets him into trouble with his more traditional superiors, intensifying his mixed feelings about returning to his native country—a place of tangled family loyalties haunted by his father’s unsolved murder—after nearly two decades. And as Magnus is about to discover, the past casts a long shadow in Iceland.