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Nell'estate del 1956, Lára Marteinsdóttir sparisce misteriosamente da Viðey, un'isola a pochi minuti di traghetto da Reykjavík. Ha soltanto quindici anni e, per raccogliere qualche soldo durante le vacanze, lavorava come domestica nella casa di un noto avvocato e della moglie, unici abitanti di quella striscia di terra battuta dal vento; per il resto, solo uccelli marini che stridono sulla costa prima di tuffarsi nelle acque dell'oceano Atlantico. Il suo diventerà il cold case più celebre d'Islanda. Cos'è successo a Lára? È stata lei a decidere di andarsene o qualcuno l'ha costretta?

Brought to you by Penguin. What happened to Lara? Iceland, 1956. Fifteen-year-old Lára spends 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. The mystery becomes Iceland's greatest unsolved...

UN covert negotiator Yael Azoulay has travelled to Europe to help in the investigation of a people-trafficking ring linked to a series of terrorist attacks. Azoulay's boss, UN Secretary General Hussein, asks Yael to broker a secret meeting with the Iranian president in Reykjavic. All parties want the violence to stop. But Azoulay realises that the terrorist chain leads to someone she's met before. Someone for whom terror is just the beginning.

After a messy divorce, attractive young mother Sonia is struggling to provide for herself and keep custody of her son. With her back to the wall, she resorts to smuggling cocaine into Iceland and finds herself caught up in a ruthless criminal world. As she desperately looks for a way out of trouble, she must pit her wits against her nemesis, Bragi, a customs officer whose years of experience frustrate her new and evermore daring strategies.

Happily settled in Florida, Sonja believes she’s escaped the trap set by unscrupulous drug lords. But when her son, Tomas, is taken, she’s back to square one...and Iceland. Her lover, Agla, is awaiting sentencing for financial misconduct after the banking crash, and Sonja refuses to see her. And that’s not all...Agla owes money to some extremely powerful men, and they’ll stop at nothing to get it back. With her former nemesis, customs officer Bragi, on her side, Sonja puts her own plan into motion to bring down the drug barons and her scheming ex-husband and get Tomas back.

Drugs, smuggling, big money and political intrigue in Iceland rally with love, passion, murder and betrayal until the winner takes all...in the masterful, explosive conclusion to the award-winning Reykjavík Noir trilogy. The prison doors slam shut behind Agla when her sentence ends, but her lover Sonja is not there to meet her. As a group of foreign businessmen tries to draw Agla into an ingenious fraud that stretches from Iceland around the world, Agla and her former nemesis María find the stakes being raised at a terrifying speed.

Danni a disparu, elle se droguait, ses grands-parents font appel à Konrad, un policier à la retraite. Une fillette retrouvée noyée dans le lac du centre de Reykjavik en 1947 hante les rêves d'une des amies de l'ex-policier. Comment la police a-t-elle mené ces enquêtes ? À des années de distance les mêmes erreurs semblent se répéter. Konrad, solide, têtu, coléreux et rompu par son enfance auprès de son père à toutes les ruses des voyous, n'hésite pas à bousculer les conformismes. Il sait aussi écouter les fantômes.