The darkness

After being unceremoniously forced into early retirement at the age of 64, Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir of the Reykjavik Police is refusing to go quietly. Hulda is told to pick a cold case to investigate for two more weeks, and then she must pack up her desk. She knows just the one. A young woman found dead on the seaweed-covered rocks of the Vatnsleysuströnd who was waiting to be granted asylum. Her death was ruled a suicide after a slapdash investigation. But when Hulda starts to ask questions she soon realises that there was something more to this case.