The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer: A Mystery

Description

An Instant National Bestseller

The next thrilling golden-age-style mystery from #1 Icelandic bestseller Ragnar J?nasson, author of Death at the Sanatorium and Reykjav?k.

One winter evening, bestselling crime author El?n S. J?nsd?ttir goes missing.

There are no clues to her disappearance and it is up to young detective Helgi to crack the case before its leaked to the press.

As Helgi interviews the people closest to her–a publisher, an accountant, a retired judge–he realizes that El?n’s life wasn’t what it seemed. In fact, her past is even stranger than the fiction she wrote.

As the case of the missing crime writer becomes more mysterious by the hour, Helgi must uncover the secrets of the writer’s very unexpected life.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Ragnar J?nasson
Published: 09/09/2025
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 9781250408266
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 1.07″ H x 9.51″ L x 6.34″ W

About the Author
RAGNAR J?NASSON is the award-winning Icelandic author of the international bestselling Hulda series, the Dark Iceland series, and standalone crime fiction, with five million copies sold across 36 territories. Ragnar was also an executive producer of the CBS Studios TV series The Darkness, based on the first novel in his Hulda series, starring Lena Olin and directed by Lasse Hallstr?m. His novel Outside is being developed for the screen by Ridley Scott.