A film crew of 150. A blizzard with no end. And a star who won’t leave her trailer alive.

When a Hollywood production descends on a tiny village in North Iceland, glamour quickly curdles into menace. Young detective Lola, newly posted to Akureyri CID, is sent to the windswept outpost of Kópasker to investigate minor theft on set. Instead, she finds herself trapped by a violent snowstorm with 150 cast and crew members and a world-famous actress dead in a locked trailer. Evelyn Gray, a star with a toxic reputation and a history of exploitation, is discovered strangled just as power and communications fail. With roads impassable and tensions rising, Lola must unravel rivalries, drug use, abuse, and buried grudges before panic turns lethal. When the crime scene goes up in flames and another body is found, suspicion fractures the stranded group. A razor-sharp closed-circle mystery set against Arctic isolation, The Murder of Evelyn Gray introduces a bold new heroine in Indridason’s most cinematic and contemporary noir series yet.

“the crown [of Scandinavian crime writers] rests securely on King Arnaldur’s head.”
BARRY FORSHAW, THE FINANCIAL TIMES

“Arnaldur Indridason [is] the godfather of Icelandic crime”
MARK SANDERSON, THE TIMES

“There is no Icelandic crime writer who does better than Indridason.”
KILJAN NATIONAL TV