<p><b>FEATURED IN <i>THE TIMES</i> TOP 100 CRIME NOVELS SINCE 1945<br><br>SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES</b><br><b><br> ''An intelligent, provocative whodunit with a killer twist'' </b>IAN RANKIN<br> ____________<br><b><br> A body is found off the coast of Iceland.</b><br><br>A cursory police investigation calls it suicide. She''s just another statistic, soon forgotten. <br><br> But not by Reykjavik Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsd¿ttir. <br><br> Difficult and unconventional, Hulda is being forced into early retirement. <br><br> Offered one last cold case to investigate she chooses Elena''s. <br><br> And when she discovers another woman vanished at a similar time, she believes a killer roams free.<br><br> With days before she''s stripped of her badge, can Hulda catch the killer alone?<br> ____________<br><br><b>THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR</b><br><br><b>''Superb . . . chilling . . . one of the greatest tragic heroines of contemporary detective fiction''</b><i>Sunday Times <br><