Sergeant Gunnhildur, recently promoted from her post in rural Iceland to Reykjavik's Serious Crime Unit, is tasked with hunting down escaped convict Long Ommi, who has embarked on a spree of
violent score?settling in and around the city. Meanwhile, she's also investigating the murder of a fitness guru in her own city?center apartment. As Gunna delves into the cases, she unearths
some unwelcome secrets and influential friends shared by both guru and convict. Set in an Iceland plagued by an ongoing financial crisis, Gunna has to take stock of the whirlwind changes that
have swept through the country��nd the fact that at the highest levels of power, the system's endemic corruption still leads, inevitably, to murder.
