In a remote cove among the rocks, the body of a young Russian woman is found. Having come to Iceland in search of a better fate, she met her death in the icy waters of the North Sea. The circumstances of this tragedy could not be established, and the case was closed. A year passed before Hulda Hermannsdoottir, a police inspector in Reykjavik, retrieved it from the archives. For Hulda, this was her last investigation—and she had only a few days left before the end of her service in the police…
The novel unfolds against the mesmerizing landscapes of the barren Icelandic highlands and majestic fjords lost among the rocks. “The Mist,” the first novel in the trilogy, instantly became a worldwide bestseller and climbed to the top ranks of prestigious literary charts, and Ragnar Jónasson earned the title “king of Scandinavian noir.” First time in Russian!