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Fresh from maternity leave, Detective Elma investigates complex case of a man murdered in a holiday cottage, while Saevar discovers something in a discarded box that could help crack the case. The multi-award-winning, NUMBER ONE bestselling Forbidden Iceland series continues...

'She uses complex plots to explore how monsters are made…

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1 author picked Boys Who Hurt as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I love this whole series - each book has its own crime with the twists and turns set in the author's hometown in Iceland, and the characters develop over the series and add in complications of their own.

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