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Four friends decide to celebrate their reunion with a trip to Etliday, a remote island off the southern coast of Iceland. One could easily get lost there, it is a strange place of dangerous beauty. And indeed, not all of them will return alive. On the last night a girl in the group is found dead, and there are many indications that lead to the conclusion that she has been murdered. Hulda Hermansdottir, whom we met in Darkness, travels to that ominous place to investigate this particular case. In a short time, however, as the tangle unravels, the inspector finds eerie similarities with an earlier case, the death of another girl ten years ago in the West Fjords, in the context of a couple's romantic getaway, which ended tragically. What exactly is going on here? Who lingers in the wastelands? Hulda, younger in this case, at the height of her career, is called upon to discover the truth. She will be hindered by dense shadows, distorting mirrors and well-hidden secrets. The Island is another chilling, haunting novel from Nordic noir innovator Ragnar Jónasson. Of Darkness they wrote: “Here we have something different that overturns our certainties about the compared genre [of Nordic noir]. Because the heroine [Hulda Hermansdóttir] who investigates the dark case at the risk of her life loves people, especially the tortured, and wants justice to be done, is full of guilt and perhaps seeks redemption from it." Filippos Filippou, The Vima of the Sunday - "In less than 300 pages, Jonasson masterfully tells a story of abuse, exploitation and family secrets - something that is common in the police school of the North, but... But how does he do it, with how much delicacy and perspicacity, with much compassion for human passions and errors, with exquisite descriptions of nature […]. Maybe