Where The Shadows Lie

Michael Ridpath
Works of: Fiction

Amid Iceland’s wild, volcanic landscape, rumours swirl of an immensely rare eight-hundred-year-old manuscript inscribed with a long-lost saga. And if the rumours can be believed, there is something much more valuable about this one. Something worth killing for. Something that will cost Professor Agnar Haraldsson his life.

Untangling murder from myth is Iceland-born, Boston-raised homicide detective Magnus Jonson. Seconded to the Icelandic Police Force, Magnus also has his own reasons for returning to the country of his birth for the first time in nearly two decades – the unsolved murder of his father.

And as Magnus is about to discover, the past casts a long shadow in Iceland…