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  • Published: 29 April 2021
  • ISBN: 9781405942553
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384

The Girl Who Died




'Is this the best crime writer in the world today?' The Times

Ragnar Jónasson 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 Skálar 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 . . .

  • Published: 29 April 2021
  • ISBN: 9781405942553
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384

About the author

Ragnar Jónasson

Ragnar Jónasson is the award-winning Icelandic author of the international bestselling Hulda series, the Dark Iceland series, and standalone crime fiction, with five million copies sold across 36 territories. Ragnar was also an executive producer of the CBS Studios TV series The Darkness, based on the first novel in his Hulda series, starring Lena Olin and directed by Lasse Hallström. His novel Outside is being developed for the screen by Ridley Scott.

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