The Girl Who Died
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Narrated by:
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Amanda Redman
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By:
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Ragnar Jonasson
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From Ragnar Jónasson, the award-winning author of the international best-selling Ari Thór series, The Girl Who Died is a stand-alone 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 10 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.
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When a young woman is found lying half-naked in the snow, bleeding and unconscious, and a highly esteemed, elderly writer falls to his death in the local theater, Ari is dragged straight into the heart of a community where he can trust no one and secrets and lies are a way of life. Past plays tag with the present and the claustrophobic tension mounts as Ari is thrust ever deeper into his own darkness - blinded by snow and with a killer on the loose.
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Unexpected and different
- By green ice cream garden on 10-12-17
By: Ragnar Jónasson, and others
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The Darkness: A Thriller
- Hidden Iceland Series, Book 1
- By: Victoria Cribb - translator, Ragnar Jónasson
- Narrated by: Amanda Redman
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The body of a young Russian woman washes up on an Icelandic shore. After a cursory investigation, the death is declared a suicide and the case is quietly closed. Over a year later Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir of the Reykjavík police is forced into early retirement at 64. She dreads the loneliness, and the memories of her dark past that threaten to come back to haunt her. But before she leaves she is given two weeks to solve a single cold case of her choice.
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Can be difficult to follow
- By M.K. Davies on 09-19-19
By: Victoria Cribb - translator, and others
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Reykjavík
- A Crime Story
- By: Ragnar Jónasson, Katrín Jakobsdóttir
- Narrated by: Bert Seymour, Tamaryn Payne
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Iceland, 1956. Fourteen-year-old Lára decides to spend the summer working for a couple on the small island of Videy, just off the coast of Reykjavík. 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 Reykjavík celebrates its 200th anniversary, journalist Valur Robertsson begins his own investigation into Lára's case.
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Better than expected
- By Shopper on 11-18-23
By: Ragnar Jónasson, and others
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Death at the Sanatorium
- A Mystery
- By: Ragnar Jónasson
- Narrated by: Sam Woolf
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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At a former sanatorium in the north of Iceland, now a hospital ward, an old nurse, Yrsa, is found murdered. Detective Hulda Hermannsdottir and her boss, Sverrir, are sent to investigate her death. There, they discover five suspects: the chief physician, two junior nurses, a young doctor, and the caretaker, who is arrested following false testimony from one of the nurses, but subsequently released. Less than a week after the murder, the chief physician, is also found dead, having apparently fallen from a balcony.
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So this really does end in the middle of a word
- By S. Armor on 09-12-24
By: Ragnar Jónasson
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The Creak on the Stairs
- By: Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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When a body of a woman is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, it soon becomes clear that she’s no stranger to the area. Chief Investigating Officer Elma, who has returned to Akranes following a failed relationship, and her collegues Sævar and Hörður commence an uneasy investigation which uncovers a shocking secret in the dead woman’s past that continues to reverberate in the present day.
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too hard to follow
- By Kindle Customer on 07-10-21
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Outside
- By: Ragnar Jónasson
- Narrated by: Carla Harrison-Hodge, Eleanor Jackson, Gil Sullivan, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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When a deadly snowstorm strikes the Icelandic highlands, four friends seek shelter in a small, abandoned hunting lodge. It is in the middle of nowhere and there's no way of communicating with the outside world. They are isolated, but they are not alone. As the night darkens, and fears intensify, an old tragedy gradually surfaces—one that forever changed the course of their friendship. Those dark memories could hold the key to the mystery the friends now find themselves in. And whether they will survive until morning . . .
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Good twists, no problem with the ending
- By R. Marchand on 07-14-22
By: Ragnar Jónasson
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Snowblind
- By: Ragnar Jónasson, Quentin Bates - translator
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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When a young woman is found lying half-naked in the snow, bleeding and unconscious, and a highly esteemed, elderly writer falls to his death in the local theater, Ari is dragged straight into the heart of a community where he can trust no one and secrets and lies are a way of life. Past plays tag with the present and the claustrophobic tension mounts as Ari is thrust ever deeper into his own darkness - blinded by snow and with a killer on the loose.
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Unexpected and different
- By green ice cream garden on 10-12-17
By: Ragnar Jónasson, and others
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The Darkness: A Thriller
- Hidden Iceland Series, Book 1
- By: Victoria Cribb - translator, Ragnar Jónasson
- Narrated by: Amanda Redman
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The body of a young Russian woman washes up on an Icelandic shore. After a cursory investigation, the death is declared a suicide and the case is quietly closed. Over a year later Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir of the Reykjavík police is forced into early retirement at 64. She dreads the loneliness, and the memories of her dark past that threaten to come back to haunt her. But before she leaves she is given two weeks to solve a single cold case of her choice.
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Can be difficult to follow
- By M.K. Davies on 09-19-19
By: Victoria Cribb - translator, and others
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Reykjavík
- A Crime Story
- By: Ragnar Jónasson, Katrín Jakobsdóttir
- Narrated by: Bert Seymour, Tamaryn Payne
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Iceland, 1956. Fourteen-year-old Lára decides to spend the summer working for a couple on the small island of Videy, just off the coast of Reykjavík. 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 Reykjavík celebrates its 200th anniversary, journalist Valur Robertsson begins his own investigation into Lára's case.
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Better than expected
- By Shopper on 11-18-23
By: Ragnar Jónasson, and others
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Death at the Sanatorium
- A Mystery
- By: Ragnar Jónasson
- Narrated by: Sam Woolf
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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At a former sanatorium in the north of Iceland, now a hospital ward, an old nurse, Yrsa, is found murdered. Detective Hulda Hermannsdottir and her boss, Sverrir, are sent to investigate her death. There, they discover five suspects: the chief physician, two junior nurses, a young doctor, and the caretaker, who is arrested following false testimony from one of the nurses, but subsequently released. Less than a week after the murder, the chief physician, is also found dead, having apparently fallen from a balcony.
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So this really does end in the middle of a word
- By S. Armor on 09-12-24
By: Ragnar Jónasson
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The Creak on the Stairs
- By: Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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When a body of a woman is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, it soon becomes clear that she’s no stranger to the area. Chief Investigating Officer Elma, who has returned to Akranes following a failed relationship, and her collegues Sævar and Hörður commence an uneasy investigation which uncovers a shocking secret in the dead woman’s past that continues to reverberate in the present day.
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too hard to follow
- By Kindle Customer on 07-10-21
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Outside
- By: Ragnar Jónasson
- Narrated by: Carla Harrison-Hodge, Eleanor Jackson, Gil Sullivan, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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When a deadly snowstorm strikes the Icelandic highlands, four friends seek shelter in a small, abandoned hunting lodge. It is in the middle of nowhere and there's no way of communicating with the outside world. They are isolated, but they are not alone. As the night darkens, and fears intensify, an old tragedy gradually surfaces—one that forever changed the course of their friendship. Those dark memories could hold the key to the mystery the friends now find themselves in. And whether they will survive until morning . . .
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Good twists, no problem with the ending
- By R. Marchand on 07-14-22
By: Ragnar Jónasson
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Hidden in Snow
- The Åre Murders, Book 1
- By: Viveca Sten, Marlaine Delargy - translator
- Narrated by: Laura Jennings
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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On the day Stockholm police officer Hanna Ahlander’s personal and professional lives crash, she takes refuge at her sister’s lodge in the Swedish ski resort paradise of Åre. But it’s a brief comfort. The entire village is shaken by the sudden vanishing of a local teenage girl. Hanna can’t help but investigate, and while searching for the missing person, she lands a job with the local police department. There she joins forces with Detective Inspector Daniel Lindskog, who has been tasked with finding the girl. Their only lead: a scarf in the snow.
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More of a soap opera than a mystery
- By Cheryl Lynn on 12-07-22
By: Viveca Sten, and others
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The Twelve Days of Murder
- By: Andreina Cordani
- Narrated by: Ella Lynch
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Twelve years ago, eight friends ran an exclusive group at university: the Masquerade Murder Society. The mysteries they solved may have been grisly, and brilliantly staged, but they were always fictional—until their final Christmas Masquerade, when one of the group disappeared, never to be seen again. Now our privileged young cast of old university friends are summoned to the depths of Scotland for a Christmas-themed masquerade party. But all are hiding something deep below the surface that could make or break their careers.
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Whodunnit Holiday
- By LadyGray on 11-14-23
By: Andreina Cordani
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Jar City
- By: Arnaldur Indridason
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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Gold Dagger Award winner Arnaldur Indridason’s novels featuring Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson became international sensations on their way to selling millions of copies worldwide. The debut of morose detective Sveinsson finds the inspector and his team delving into the murder of a retiree with horrifying secrets.
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Cerebral Police Procedural
- By Aaron on 09-14-13
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Snare
- Reykjavik Noir, Book 1
- By: Lilja Sigurdardottir
- Narrated by: Suzannah Hampton
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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After a messy divorce, attractive young mother Sonia is struggling to provide for herself and keep custody of her son. With her back to the wall, she resorts to smuggling cocaine into Iceland and finds herself caught up in a ruthless criminal world. As she desperately looks for a way out of trouble, she must pit her wits against her nemesis, Bragi, a customs officer whose years of experience frustrate her new and evermore daring strategies.
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Really good. Interesting.
- By Dana on 01-12-18
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The Snow Angel
- Detectives von Klint and Berg, Book 1
- By: Anki Edvinsson, Paul Norlen - translator
- Narrated by: Stina Nielsen
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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When a boy leaps to his death from a bridge in the northern town of Umeå, Sweden, police discover drugs scattered in the snow near his body. The town has seen a dramatic increase in narcotic use among its youth, but nobody knows where the pills are coming from.
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Great listen
- By SueAnnna68 on 01-22-24
By: Anki Edvinsson, and others
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Cold as Hell
- By: Lilja Sigurdardóttir, Quentin Bates - translator
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Icelandic sisters Áróra and Ísafold live in different countries and aren‘t on speaking terms, but when their mother loses contact with Ísafold, Áróra reluctantly returns to Iceland to find her sister. But she soon realises that her sister isn’t avoiding her...she has disappeared. As she confronts Ísafold’s abusive, drug-dealing boyfriend Björn, and begins to probe her sister’s reclusive neighbours, Áróra is led into an ever-darker web of intrigue and manipulation.
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Engaging and fast paced
- By Hanybal on 07-21-24
By: Lilja Sigurdardóttir, and others
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The Keeper of Lost Causes
- Department Q, Book 1
- By: Jussi Adler-Olsen
- Narrated by: Erik Davies
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
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Carl Mørck used to be one of Denmark’s best homicide detectives. Then a hail of bullets destroyed the lives of two fellow cops, and Carl - who didn’t draw his weapon - blames himself. So a promotion is the last thing he expects. But Department Q is a department of one, and Carl’s got only a stack of cold cases for company. His colleagues snicker, but Carl may have the last laugh, because one file keeps nagging at him: A liberal politician vanished five years earlier and is presumed dead. But she isn’t dead...yet.
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Dark, Cold, and Danish
- By Ted on 11-28-12
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The Bat
- The First Inspector Harry Hole Novel
- By: Jo Nesbø, Don Bartlett
- Narrated by: Joh Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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In the electrifying first installment of the New York Times bestselling series, Harry Hole of the Oslo Crime Squad is dispatched to Sydney to observe a murder case. As he circles closer to the killer, Harry begins to fear that no one is safe, least of all those investigating the murder.
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Not as good as the others....
- By KP on 07-10-13
By: Jo Nesbø, and others
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I'm Traveling Alone
- By: Samuel Bjork
- Narrated by: Laura Paton
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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A six-year-old girl is found in the Norwegian countryside, hanging lifeless from a tree and dressed in strange doll's clothes. Around her neck is a sign that says, "I'm traveling alone." A special homicide unit in Oslo reopens with veteran police investigator Holger Munch at the helm. Holger's first step is to persuade the brilliant but haunted investigator Mia Krüger, who has been living on an isolated island, overcome by memories of her past.
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Ready for a GREAT BOOK⁉️
- By Jayne on 04-22-16
By: Samuel Bjork
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My First Murder
- Maria Kallio, Book 1
- By: Leena Lehtolainen, Owen F. Witesman - translator
- Narrated by: Amy Rubinate
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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After a student choir’s practice session at a Helsinki villa turns deadly, Detective Maria Kallio finds herself in the middle of the action - and her first murder case. Someone in the group wanted playboy Tommi Peltonen dead, but that’s one song these suspects refuse to sing. Behind the choir’s jovial facade lies bitter passion, and the victim’s seemingly perfect life hid a host of sins that made him a target of almost everyone in the villa. As a young female - and a redhead to boot - Maria knows that solving this case will help her overcome her perceived shortcoming in the eyes of her colleagues.
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Series off to a weak start
- By Wayne on 12-06-16
By: Leena Lehtolainen, and others
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Still Waters
- Sandhamn Murders, Book 1
- By: Viveca Sten, Marlaine Delargy - translator
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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On a hot July morning on Sweden's idyllic vacation island of Sandhamn, a man takes his dog for a walk and makes a gruesome discovery: a body, tangled in fishing net, has washed ashore. Police detective Thomas Andreasson is the first to arrive on the scene. Before long, he has identified the deceased as Krister Berggren, a bachelor from the mainland who has been missing for months. All signs point to an accident - until another brutalized corpse is found at the local bed-and-breakfast.
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Bart Simpson Narrates
- By wobbly on 05-25-17
By: Viveca Sten, and others
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The Hypnotist
- A Novel
- By: Lars Kepler
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The police are desperate for information on the triple homicide. Detective Joona Linna enlists the help of hypnotist Erik Maria Bark. But when Bark unlocks the secrets in the boy’s memory, he triggers a terrifying chain of events that will put all their lives in jeopardy.
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Gripping and mysterious!
- By 311CHICK on 09-20-18
By: Lars Kepler
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- catherine
- 08-02-21
Written Beautifully and very Interesting
I enjoyed listening to this book very much for the description of the town made me feel cold in 90 degree weather. the plot was not your typical suspense/ thriller but enjoyable up but not the last 2 chapters. it kept my interest until you read the end and you say what? Was this book a supernatural old fashion ghost story? Who knows.
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- Janna Wong Healy
- 11-17-21
A Mystery and a Ghost Story Rolled Into One
4.5 Stars. A mystery and a ghost story rolled into one.
The story begins when Una, a young aimless and unsettled woman, takes a teaching job on the other side of the country from her hometown of Reykjavik. Skalar is an isolated village with only 10 residents and everyone naturally knows each other. So, Una immediately feels even more isolated. But these feelings transform into inner terror when she "sees" a young girl in the house where she will be living.
The ghost story is mixed with a murder mystery when we learn about the death of two young men, the body of only one that has been recovered.
Una's life -- stuck in the middle of nowhere with no friends close by -- is taut with danger and foreboding.
The narrator Amanda Redman does a nice job. Her voice is clear and she distinguishes the various characters well.
If you like ghost stories, this one is for you. (The mystery doesn't really kick in until near the end so it was a tad disappointing in that regard.) But overall, this was a good read.
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- Linda L.
- 01-13-22
Hard to follow at times
The way this story was written, it jumps around between 2 stories being told at the same time. It was confusing to me listening to it as an audiobook. I kept thinking I'd missed something in the story. It was a little hard to follow sometimes even without it jumping around between the two stories. What I did follow in the story was interesting.
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- Becky
- 10-21-22
Interesting story but missed the mark
The main character, Oona, doesn't really pass the reality test for me. she makes some extreme choices that don't make sense.
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- Catherine
- 05-11-21
Spooky
Interesting mystery with a paranormal twist. Who is the dead girl? Who is in prison?
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- Bitten and Seven Forever
- 08-17-22
One of His Best
My only complaint is that I wish this book was considerably longer…
The characters are all so interesting and the location is truly other worldly and of a kind.
A brilliant mystery narrated beautifully by Amanda Redman (always a delight).
Would love for this book to be part of a series or at least have a sequel.
Phenomenal character development and RJ knows how to truly draw the listener/reader all the way in to his incredible narratives.
This is a wonderful novel in every conceivable way.
Pure perfection.
Easiest 5 stars I’ve given in a very long time.
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- M Smith
- 03-05-24
I like his Stand alone.
This one led me to many false paths. The end comes up quickly and surprises.
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- Silvia
- 11-17-21
Surprised
The ending was odd to me. somehow did not fit the story
I liked the book a lot, til the end
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- Kindle Customer
- 08-24-21
The Girl Who Died
have loved all of this books. Ending was a bit confusing
keep up the writing
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- Vall
- 04-20-24
Lost Momentum
If you are looking for heroines that are insipid and spineless, this is for you. Like most horror stories or maybe soap operas, the haunting and drinking and indecision and lack of backbone goes on in-finitum. A glimpse of plot movement forward dashed every time. Sheesh!
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