Ragnar Jonasson for The Body in the Bath
Wednesday 18th November, 7pm
The Royal Scots Club, 29-31 Abercromby Pl, Edinburgh EH3 6QE
6.30pm
7pm
'Jonasson is an automatic must-read for me . . . possibly the best Scandi writer working today' Lee Child
As snow blankets Reykjavik and Christmas approaches, young detective Helgi is looking forward to a quiet holiday - until those plans are torn away in a flash. One month after his girlfriend Anita is killed in a car accident, he returns to work in Reykjavik, haunted by loss and rage. The driver - Helgi's ex-girlfriend Bergthora, a violent alcoholic whose abuse he kept secret - insists Anita's death was an accident and walks free.
To escape his mounting despair, Helgi throws himself into the unsolved disappearance of his predecessor, Hulda, a retired officer long presumed dead. But as he follows the traces she left behind, the lines between her past and his present begin to blur . . .
When Bergthora is later found lifeless in her bath, suspicion falls squarely on Helgi. With his own colleagues turning against him, can he uncover the truth in time to clear his name, make it home for Christmas, and finally turn the page to begin again?
Ragnar Jonasson is the award-winning Icelandic author of the international bestselling Hulda series, the Dark Iceland series, and standalone crime fiction, with five million copies sold across 36 territories. Ragnar was also an executive producer of the CBS Studios TV series The Darkness, based on the first novel in his Hulda series, starring Lena Olin and directed by Lasse Hallstroem. His novel Outside is being developed for the screen by Ridley Scott.