‘Kept me captivated from first to last page!’

MICHAEL CONNELLY

‘We don’t talk about hatred, we hate in silence. It’s our way. We do everything in silence.’

One hundred miles inside the Arctic Circle, Sufia Elmi, a beautiful and enchanting Somali movie star, is found dead – her body stripped naked and mutilated.

Detective Kari Vaara is determined to get right to the heart of the hate crime. As the media reaches fever pitch, suspects emerge. Among them a past figure Vaara would rather forget.

Meanwhile, his American wife Kate is struggling to cope, pregnant and isolated in her new home.

In the thick of a cruel, endless winter, who is cold enough to kill?