"Nicol's dark, time-shifting
narrative is masterful and powerful. Subterranean and uncontrollable
forces––greed, desire, loneliness, addiction––transport the characters who
populate Reykjavik's back streets to often fatal moments of clarity––with
Iceland's most dangerous and elemental geographic locations as backdrop--the
massive and seething Gullfoss; the treacherous and icy silence of the forest;
the tumult of the sea. Detective Grímur Karlsson, deadened by failure and by
solitude, literally falls into the most important and dangerous case of his
career, the vanishing of a prostitute into the night. But finding the missing
girl reveals more than locating a body. Along the way Grímur discovers that he,
too, is disposable, and that light comes from the most unlikely places."
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