- This edition an e-book on Kindle (Amazon)
- ASIN : B0CTFDWB1R
- Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton, November 7, 2024
- Print length : 429 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-1399722858
- Part of series : The Black Ice - #1
- Translated by Victoria Cribb
Synopsis (Amazon)
On a cold winter evening in a secluded fjord in Iceland, a neighbour visits the house of a family that has not been seen in a week. No one comes to the door when he knocks.
After breaking down the back door, his worst fears are realised. Their home is now an horrific crime scene.
Policeman Týr and forensic pathologist Iðunn are called to the house to investigate. As the case advances, harrowing secrets about the family are revealed. Along with a young policeman Karó, the investigative team quickly realise that the case forces them to face their own suppressed past and opens a Pandora's box to much darker crimes.
Can't Run, Can't Hide is a masterclass in tension from one of the world's finest crime writers.
My Take
This was a truly creepy read. Told in essentially two time frames, and the author is set on the path of working out what preceded the crime, and then who the perpetrator was, and why.
Soldis is a young trainee teacher who has come to work as an au pair in a remote house in Western Iceland. She discovers that she is the third in a line of au pairs, and that the previous two were apparently dismissed.
Within days she realises that someone is entering the house, taking or relocating items and then the scary activity becomes worse, so much so that Soldis decides she will also leave as soon as possible.
In the long run the perpetrator came as a surprise to me, although I could claim to have been on the right track.
My rating: 4.8
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