PRE-ORDER THE NEXT GRIPPING MYSTERY FROM 'NEXT-GEN NORDIC STAR' (LA TIMES) AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, RAGNAR JONASSON
'ONE OF THE FINEST CRIME WRITERS IN THE WORLD TODAY' DAILY MAIL
'Jónasson is an automatic must-read for me . . . possibly the best Scandi writer working today' LEE CHILD
'A master of the Icelandic thriller' NEW YORK POST
As snow blankets Reykjavìk and Christmas approaches, young detective Helgi is looking forward to a quiet holiday - until those plans are torn away in a flash. One month after his girlfriend Anìta is killed in a car accident, he returns to work in Reykjavìk, haunted by loss and rage. The driver - Helgi's ex-girlfriend Bergþóra, a violent alcoholic whose abuse he kept secret - insists Anìta's death was an accident and walks free.
To escape his mounting despair, Helgi throws himself into the unsolved disappearance of his predecessor, Hulda, a retired officer long presumed dead. But as he follows the traces she left behind, the lines between her past and his present begin to blur . . .
When Bergþóra is later found lifeless in her bath, suspicion falls squarely on Helgi. With his own colleagues turning against him, can he uncover the truth in time to clear his name, make it home for Christmas, and finally turn the page to begin again?
| ISBN: | 9780241786383 |
| Publication date: | 12th November 2026 |
| Author: | Ragnar Jónasson |
| Publisher: | Michael Joseph an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 304 pages |
| Genres: |
Thriller and Suspense Fiction in translation Crime and mystery: police procedural |
PRE-ORDER THE NEXT GRIPPING MYSTERY FROM 'NEXT-GEN NORDIC STAR' (LA TIMES) AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, RAGNAR JONASSON
'ONE OF THE FINEST CRIME WRITERS IN THE WORLD TODAY' DAILY MAIL
'Jónasson is an automatic must-read for me . . . possibly the best Scandi writer working today' LEE CHILD
'A master of the Icelandic thriller' NEW YORK POST
As snow blankets Reykjavìk and Christmas approaches, young detective Helgi is looking forward to a quiet holiday - until those plans are torn away in a flash. One month after his girlfriend Anìta is killed in a car accident, he returns to work in Reykjavìk, haunted by loss and rage. The driver - Helgi's ex-girlfriend Bergþóra, a violent alcoholic whose abuse he kept secret - insists Anìta's death was an accident and walks free.
To escape his mounting despair, Helgi throws himself into the unsolved disappearance of his predecessor, Hulda, a retired officer long presumed dead. But as he follows the traces she left behind, the lines between her past and his present begin to blur . . .
When Bergþóra is later found lifeless in her bath, suspicion falls squarely on Helgi. With his own colleagues turning against him, can he uncover the truth in time to clear his name, make it home for Christmas, and finally turn the page to begin again?
The Body in the Bath features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, Fiction in translation, Crime and mystery: police procedural
The Body in the Bath is available in Hardback
The Body in the Bath was written by Ragnar Jónasson and published by Michael Joseph an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
The Body in the Bath has 304 pages
£18.00