Reykjavík: A Crime Story - Paperback

by Ragnar Jónasson (Author), Katrín Jakobsdóttir (Author)

With over four million copies sold worldwide, Ragnar Jónasson, along with Katrín Jakobsdóttir, brings us a gripping and chilling new thriller, Reykjavík.

What happened to Lára?

Iceland, 1956. Fourteen-year-old Lára decides to spend the summer working for a couple on the small island of Videy, just off the coast of Reykjavík. In early August, the girl disappears without a trace. Time passes, and the mystery becomes Iceland's most infamous unsolved case. What happened to the young girl? Is she still alive? Did she leave the island, or did something happen to her there?

Thirty years later, as the city of Reykjavík celebrates its 200th anniversary, journalist Valur Robertsson begins his own investigation into Lára's case. But as he draws closer to discovering the secret, and with the eyes of Reykjavík upon him, it soon becomes clear that Lára's disappearance is a mystery that someone will stop at nothing to keep unsolved . . .

Author Biography

RAGNAR JÓNASSON is an international number one bestselling author who has sold over three million books in thirty-six countries worldwide. His books include the Dark Iceland series and the Hulda series. Jónasson was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he also works as an investment banker and teaches copyright law at Reykjavik University. He has previously worked on radio and television, including as a TV news reporter for the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, and, since the age of seventeen, has translated fourteen of Agatha Christie's novels. Jónasson is the co-founder of the Reykjavik international crime writing festival Iceland Noir. His critically acclaimed international bestseller The Darkness is soon to be a major TV series, and Outside is soon to be a feature film. Jónasson lives in Reykjavik with his wife and two daughters.

KATRÍN JAKOBSDÓTTIR is the prime minister of Iceland. Reykjavík is her first novel. Katrín holds a master's degree in Icelandic literature and wrote her master's thesis on Icelandic crime fiction author Arnaldur Indriðason. She taught Icelandic literature, and worked for media and publishing houses, before becoming a member of the Icelandic parliament in 2007. She served as the minister for education, research and culture from 2009-2013 and became the chair of her political party, the Left-Green Movement, in 2013. She has been the prime minister since 2017, and lives with her husband and three sons in Reykjavík.