The Girl Who Died: The chilling Sunday Times Crime Book of the Year

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'Is this the best crime writer in the world today?' The Times Ragnar J nasson returns with his very first standalone - his darkest and most atmospheric mystery yet . . . Una is devastated after the suicide of her father. So when she sees an advert seeking a teacher for two girls in Skalar on the storm-battered north coast of the island, she sees it as a chance to escape. But once she arrives, Una quickly realises nothing in city life has prepared her for this. The villagers are unfriendly. The weather is bleak. And, from the creaky attic bedroom in the old house she's living, she's convinced she hears the ghostly sound of singing. Una worries that she's losing her mind. And then, just before Christmas, there's a death in the village . . .

Ragnar J nasson is an international number one bestselling author who has sold over two million books in thirty-two countries worldwide. He 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, from the age of seventeen, has translated fourteen of Agatha Christie's novels. His critically acclaimed international bestseller The Darkness is soon to be a major TV series.

Intriguing . . . This spooky novel draws on Icelandic sagas to create an atmosphere of growing menace. * The Times, CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR * An intensely gripping mystery, Ragnar Jonasson is a poet of the "dark, wet and cold", of the "gloom, cold and rain". The climactic revelations are credible and moving * The Times, BOOK OF THE MONTH * A creepy tale * The Times * A master of the Icelandic thriller * New York Post * With the bleakest of landscapes and some supernatural undertones, this is one creepy thriller that'll have you leaving ALL the lights on * Vogue Scandinavia * Spooky, sophisticated. Jonasson is strong on atmosphere * Sunday Times * Invigorating Iceland-set slice of Nordic Noir * Daily Mail * With his trademark elegant prose and atmospheric sense of place, Jonasson weaves a slow-burning, haunting tale with a chilling ending * Daily Record * A chilling psychological thriller with an unexpected ending that will haunt the reader * The Canberra Times * Haunting psychological novel tinged with the supernatural * Daily Record * With his trademark elegant prose and atmospheric sense of place, Jonasson weaves a slow-burning, haunting tale with a chilling ending * Sunday Express * Lean, compulsive. Great stories that combine traditional puzzle-solving of the golden age crime fiction with a moody expansive psychology * The Times * Fiendishy clever trilogy * Financial Times * A mist-shrouded blend of horror and psychological thriller . . . works in every way. The isolated village and the pre-smartphone 1980s setting create a sense of claustrophobia that combines with the villagers' secrecy and the hint of supernatural elements to infuse strong foreboding throughout what is ultimately revealed to be a story about trust * Booklist * The Icelandic king of crime * Goeteborgsposten * A deeply atmospheric mystery * Choice Magazine * Few among the country's authors match Jonasson in conveying insular abandonment . . . excellent * Toronto Star * Ragnar Jonasson's impeccable plotting is really a wonder of the crime genre . . . a masterfully conceived horror novel * Dayton Daily News * Perfect for anyone who loves Nordic crime noir, the colder the better. The writing really brings alive a bleak, cold environment in which Una is struggling to survive and maintain her sanity * CADs Magazine * A demonic piece of horror * Dayton Daily News * Praise for Ragnar Jonasson * - * Triumphant . . . Chilling, creepy, perceptive, almost unbearably tense * Ian Rankin * Triumphant conclusion to the trilogy. Only Ragnar Jonasson has rendered hindsight so heartbreaking. * Sunday Times (on the Hidden Iceland trilogy) * Is this the best crime writer in the world today? . . . He's truly a master of his genre * The Times Online * Jonasson is an automatic must-read for me . . . possibly the best Scandi writer working today It is nothing less than a landmark in modern crime fiction * The Times * A world-class crime writer. One of the most astonishing plots of modern crime fiction. A triumphant conclusion to the trilogy [that] makes Iceland's pre-eminence in the crime genre even more marked * The Sunday Times * The red hot crime writer from the frozen north . . . One of the most important voices on the international crime scene * The Times * A master of the Icelandic thriller. * New York Post * Invigorating Iceland-set slice of Nordic Noir. * Daily Mail * Fiendishy clever trilogy * Financial Times * Triumphant conclusion to the trilogy. Only Ragnar Jonasson has rendered hindsight so heartbreaking. * Sunday Times (on the Hidden Iceland trilogy) *