With over three million copies sold worldwide, Ragnar J鏮asson, along with Katr?/b>n Jakobsd?/b>ttir, brings us a gripping and chilling new thriller, Reykjav璭.
What happened to L嫫a?
Iceland, 1956. Fourteen-year-old L嫫a decides to spend the summer working for a couple on the small island of Videy, just off the coast of Reykjav璭. In early August, the girl disappears without a trace. Time passes, and the mystery becomes Iceland's most infamous unsolved case. What happened to the young girl? Is she still alive? Did she leave the island, or did something happen to her there?
Thirty years later, as the city of Reykjav璭 celebrates its 200th anniversary, journalist Valur Robertsson begins his own investigation into L嫫a's case. But as he draws closer to discovering the secret, and with the eyes of Reykjav璭 upon him, it soon becomes clear that L嫫a's disappearance is a mystery that someone will stop at nothing to keep unsolved . . .