With over four million copies sold worldwide, Ragnar Jó nasson, along with Katrí n Jakobsdó ttir, brings us a gripping and chilling new thriller, Reykjaví k.
What happened to Lá ra?
Iceland, 1956. Fourteen-year-old Lá ra decides to spend the summer working for a couple on the small island of Videy, just off the coast of Reykjaví k. 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 Reykjaví k celebrates its 200th anniversary, journalist Valur Robertsson begins his own investigation into Lá ra's case. But as he draws closer to discovering the secret, and with the eyes of Reykjaví k upon him, it soon becomes clear that Lá ra's disappearance is a mystery that someone will stop at nothing to keep unsolved . . .
