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Girls Who Lie

Author(s): Eva Björg Ægisdóttir

Location(s): Iceland

Genre(s): Crime, Mystery

Era(s): Contemporary

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Forbidden Iceland series, Book 2.

When single mother Maríanna disappears from her home, leaving an apologetic note on the kitchen table, everyone assumes that she’s taken her own life … until her body is found on the Grábrók lava fields seven months later, clearly the victim of murder. Her neglected fifteen-year-old daughter Hekla has been placed in foster care, but is her perfect new life hiding something sinister?

Fifteen years earlier, a desperate new mother lies in a maternity ward, unable to look at her own child, the start of an odd and broken relationship that leads to a shocking tragedy.

Police officer Elma and her colleagues take on the case, which becomes increasingly complex, as the number of suspects grows and new light is shed on Maríanna’s past – and the childhood of a girl who never was like the others…

Breathtakingly chilling and tantalisingly twisty, Girls Who Lie is at once a startling, tense psychological thriller and a sophisticated police procedural, marking Eva Björg Ægisdottir as one of the most exciting new names in crime fiction.

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Author: Tina Hartas

Eva Björg Ægisdóttir is a name to watch when it comes to Icelandic Noir. She has a very confident writing style and her storytelling abilities keep the reader firmly hooked in as she moves...

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