One True Word - Snæbjorn Arngrimsson
Snæbjorn Arngrimsson
- Pages · 352 pages
- Publication Date · 04/12/2025
- Genre · Thriller / suspense
The no.1 icelandic bestseller!
'So gripping I simply couldn't put it down' Eva Bj�rg �gisd�ttir, author of The Creak on the Stairs
'A truly unusual crime novel which kept me reading until the very end... highly enjoyable' Katr�n Jakobsd�ttir, former Icelandic Prime Minister and author of Reykjavik: A Crime Story
Why did she do it?
After a day of simmering tension on a trip to an uninhabited island, J�lia snaps and leaves her husband G�� marooned in the middle of a freezing fjord in the depths of the Icelandic winter, with night drawing in.
When she regrets her decision and returns, he is nowhere to be found. The police launch a manhunt, but soon their suspicion falls on his wife. She spins them a story to hide her involvement, but she can feel the net closing in.Is G�� alive or dead? In hiding or hunting her down? And can J�lia get to the truth before it destroys her?
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