Where does a woman turn when her husband is accused of having murdered her father and best friend? What do a girl’s relatives do when she disappears without a trace and the police say she will never be found? What is the explanation behind a finger found in a crevice on Snaefellsjokull?

Of course, Stella Blomkvist is the woman to talk to. She is: a lawyer who plays the stock market in her free time; a leather-clad single mother in a silver Mercedes Benz with a voracious sexual appetite, mindful of her mother’s wisdom; no fan of the police; the person people turn to when they have nothing to lose.

The Skalholt Murders is the eighth book about Stella Blomkvist, who is as hardhitting, independent and spirited as ever before.

• Nominated for The Drop of Blood – The Icelandic Crime Novel Award 2016