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    The Girl Who Died: A Thriller
    The Girl Who Died: A Thriller
    The Girl Who Died: A Thriller
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    The Girl Who Died: A Thriller

    Written by Ragnar Jónasson

    Narrated by Amanda Redman

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    From Ragnar Jónasson, the award-winning author of the international bestselling Ari Thór series, The Girl Who Died is a standalone thriller about a young woman seeking a new start in a secluded village where a small community is desperate to protect its secrets.

    Teacher Wanted At the Edge of the World

    Una wants nothing more than to teach, but she has been unable to secure steady employment in Reykjavík. Her savings are depleted, her love life is nonexistent, and she cannot face another winter staring at the four walls of her shabby apartment. Celebrating Christmas and ringing in 1986 in the remote fishing hamlet of Skálar seems like a small price to pay for a chance to earn some teaching credentials and get her life back on track.

    But Skálar isn’t just one of Iceland’s most isolated villages, it is home to just ten people. Una’s only students are two girls aged seven and nine. Teaching them only occupies so many hours in a day and the few adults she interacts with are civil but distant. She only seems to connect with Thór, a man she shares an attraction with but who is determined to keep her at arm’s length.

    As darkness descends throughout the bleak winter, Una finds herself more often than not in her rented attic space—the site of a local legendary haunting—drinking her loneliness away. She is plagued by nightmares of a little girl in a white dress singing a lullaby. And when a sudden tragedy echoes an event long buried in Skálar’s past, the villagers become even more guarded, leaving a suspicious Una seeking to uncover a shocking truth that’s been kept secret for generations.

    A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books

    "Is this the best crime writer in the world today? If you're looking for a mystery to get lost in during lockdown..." —The Times, UK

    "A world-class crime writer...One of the most astonishing plots of modern crime fiction" —Sunday Times, UK

    "It is nothing less than a landmark in modern crime fiction." —The Times, UK

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateMay 4, 2021
    ISBN9781250804846
    Author

    Ragnar Jónasson

    RAGNAR JÓNASSON is an international number one award-winning and bestselling author who has sold over four million books in thirty-six territories worldwide. He is the only Icelandic author to have entered the Wall Street Journal bestseller list. Jónasson was born in Reykjavik, where he also teaches copyright law at Reyk­javík University. He has previously worked on radio and television, including as a TV news reporter, and, since the age of seventeen, has translated fourteen of Agatha Christie’s novels into Icelandic. He is the co-founder of the Reykjavík internation­al crime writing festival Iceland Noir. His critically ac­claimed international bestseller The Darkness is soon to be a major CBS Studios TV series, starring Lena Olin as Hulda, directed by Lasse Hallstrom. Ragnar's novel, Outside, is in development as a feature film by Ridley Scott's production company.

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    • 4/5
      I liked this mystery. It captured the isolation of the village and the sense of alienation quite well.
    • 4/5
      Imaginative novel with interesting character development and excellent narration! ??