Girls who lie / Eva Björg Ægisdóttir ; translated by Victoria Cribb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, 1988- author.

Contributor:

Cribb, Victoria, translator.

Series:

Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, 1988- Forbidden Iceland.

Forbidden Iceland ; 2

Standardized Title:

Stelpur sem ljúga. English

Language:

English

Icelandic

Subjects (All):

Iceland--Fiction.

Iceland.

Genre:

Thrillers (Fiction)

Psychological fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Fiction.

Novels.

Noir fiction.

Icelandic fiction -- Translations into English.

Physical Description:

317 pages : map ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Orenda Books, 2021.

Language Note:

Translated from the Icelandic.

Summary:

When a depressed, alcoholic single mother disappears, everything suggests suicide, but when her body is found, Icelandic Detective Elma and her team are thrust into a perplexing, chilling investigation. When single mother Marianna disappears from her home, leaving an apologetic note on the kitchen table, everyone assumes that she's taken her own life ... until her body is found on the Grabrok lava fields seven months later, clearly the victim of murder. Her neglected fifteen-year-old daughter Hekla has been placed in foster care, but is her perfect new life hiding something sinister? Fifteen years earlier, a desperate new mother lies in a maternity ward, unable to look at her own child, the start of an odd and broken relationship that leads to a shocking tragedy. Police officer Elma and her colleagues take on the case, which becomes increasingly complex, as the number of suspects grows and new light is shed on Marianna's past - and the childhood of a girl who never was like the others...

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781913193737

191319373X

9781913193805

1913193802

OCLC:

1231957087