Christmas is coming to snowy Reykjavík, but Detective Helgi is grieving.

His girlfriend has been killed in a car crash, and the driver, his ex Bergþóra, has walked free. Helgi throws himself into the unsolved disappearance of his predecessor, Hulda, until Bergþóra is found dead in her bath and suspicion falls on him. A tense, atmospheric Icelandic crime novel from the bestselling author of the Dark Iceland and Hulda series.