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Kommissar Huldar hatte keinen guten Start bei seiner Zusammenarbeit mit der Kinderpsychologin Freyja. Dennoch zieht er sie bei den aktuellen Ermittlungen wieder zurate: In Reykjavik wird nach zehn Jahren eine in einen Grundstein eingemauerte Zeitkapsel mit Briefen von damaligen Schülern gehoben. Unter den Briefen findet sich auch eine Nachricht, die akribisch die Initialen zukünftiger Mordopfer auflistet.

Ein neues Ermittler-Duo aus Island. Er schlägt erbarmungslos zu. Wie aus dem Nichts. Zuerst trifft es eine junge Mutter nachts in ihrer Wohnung in Reykjavik. Wenig später verliert eine zweite Frau unter brutalen Umständen ihr Leben. Der erste große Fall für Kommissar Huldar. Der hat noch ein Problem: Er muss mit der Psychologin Freya zusammenarbeiten, mit der er kürzlich nach einer Kneipentour die Nacht verbracht hat - allerdings als angeblicher Zimmermann von den Westfjorden.

It was meant to be a quiet family fishing trip, a chance for mother and daughter to talk. But it changes the course of their lives forever. They catch nothing except a broken doll that gets tangled in the net. After years in the ocean, the doll a terrifying sight and the mother's first instinct is to throw it back, but she relents when her daughter pleads to keep it. This simple act of kindness proves fatal. That evening, the mother posts a picture of the doll on social media. By the morning, she is dead and the doll has disappeared.

On a jagged, bleak lava field just outside Reykjavik stands the Gallows Rock. Once a place of execution, it is now a tourist attraction. Until this morning, when a man was found hanging from it. The nail embedded in his chest proves it wasn't suicide. But when the police go to his flat, a further puzzle awaits: a four-year-old boy has been left there. He doesn't seem to have any link with the victim, his parents cannot be found and his drawings show he witnessed something terrible.

A terrifying ghost story from the Queen of Icelandic crime, Yrsa Sigurdardottir, author of the Thora Gudmundsdottir novels. 'Yrsa is one of the most exciting new voices in the crime thriller world.' - Peter James The crunching noise had resumed, now accompanied by a disgusting, indefinable smell...

A chilling note predicting the deaths of six people is found in a school's time capsule, 10 years after it was buried. But surely, if a 13-year-old wrote it, it can't be a real threat.... Detective Huldar suspects he's been given the investigation simply to keep him away from real police work. He turns to psychologist Freyja to help understand the child who hid the message. Soon, however, they find themselves at the heart of another shocking case.

Aldis hates her job working in a juvenile detention center in rural Iceland. The boys are difficult, the owners are unpleasant, and there are mysterious noises at night. And then two of the boys go astray.... Decades later single father Odinn is looking into alleged abuse at the center. The more he finds out, though, the more it seems the odd events of the 1970s are linked to the accident that killed his ex-wife. Was her death something more sinister?

Et redningshold bliver sendt ud i det afsidesliggende islandske højland for at finde en gruppe forsvundne personer. Hvad fik dem til at bevæge sig ud midt om vinteren, ud i mørke og snestorm? Og hvorfor forlod de det lille shelter uden ordentligt overtøj eller udstyr? Samtidig sker der mærkelige ting ved den isolerede radarstation i Stokksnes.

Det er skumring, da tre voksne mennesker og en lille hund bliver sat i land i det gammle fiskerleje Hesteyri i Jökulsfjörður på nordvestkysten af Island. Deres plan er at istandsætte et gammelt hus og omdanne det til pensionat, som de forhåbentlig kan drive med økonomisk genvinst. Katrín er modvilligt taget med sin mand, og den tredje person er Lif, som netop er blevet enke.