From the bestselling author of The Mysterious Case of The Missing Crime Writer comes the next mystery featuring detective Helgi Reykdal. "A master of the Icelandic thriller."-- New York Post As snow blankets Reykjavík and Christmas approaches, young detective Helgi is looking forward to a quiet holiday--until those plans are torn away in a flash. One month after his girlfriend Aníta is killed in a car accident, he returns to work in Reykjavík, haunted by loss and rage. The driver--Helgi's ex-girlfriend Bergþóra, a violent alcoholic whose abuse he kept secret--insists Aníta's death was an accident and walks free. To escape his mounting despair, Helgi throws himself into the unsolved disappearance of his predecessor, Hulda, a retired officer long presumed dead. But as he follows the traces she left behind, the lines between her past and his present begin to blur . When Bergþóra is later found lifeless in her bath, suspicion falls squarely on Helgi.

With his own colleagues turning against him, can he uncover the truth in time.