"This Icelandic crime and psychological thriller is a provocative read as it dives into some thought-provoking issues."
A chilling tone and unsettling plot is wrapped up inside this cracking police procedural and psychological thriller. West Iceland CID investigate the death of a woman who went missing seven months previously. While suicide was the initial assumption, it's only when Marianna’s body is found that they can establish murder.
This is the second in the Forbidden Iceland series, I recommend starting with The Creak on the Stairs which was a bestseller in Iceland, winning the Blackbird Award. While a police procedural, the other characters share the stage which ensures there are some fascinating trails of information to follow.
In this book Eva Björg Ægisdottir cements the characters of the policing team. The vivid descriptions and haunting quality of the writing, which is so well translated by Victoria Cribb, ensured I could see and feel Iceland. Two stories sit side by side, each twisting around the other and allowing tension and intrigue access while themes of child neglect and social issues are thoughtfully handled.
Girls Who Lie slithers and suggests and coils towards its thought-provoking conclusion, and I will be following this series with interest.
When a depressed, alcoholic single mother disappears, everything suggests suicide, but when her body is found, Icelandic Detective Elma and her team are thrust into a perplexing, chilling investigation.
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When a depressed, alcoholic single mother disappears, everything suggests suicide, but when her body is found, Icelandic Detective Elma and her team are thrust into a perplexing, chilling investigation. When single mother Marianna disappears from her home, leaving an apologetic note on the kitchen table, everyone assumes that she's taken her own life ... until her body is found on the Grabrok lava fields seven months later, clearly the victim of murder.
Girls Who Lie features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, Fiction in translation, Fiction, Fiction: special features, Books of the Month, Family Drama, Thriller and Suspense, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Psychological thriller, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Recommendations, Fiction: narrative themes
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Girls Who Lie was written by Eva Björg Ægisdottir and published by Orenda Books
Girls Who Lie has 317 pages
Yes it is part of Forbidden Iceland series
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