SHORTLISTED FOR THE PETRONA AWARD 2024 'Mesmerising and atmospheric, with entrancing descriptions of landscape' *** A SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR *** THE FIRST PHONE CALL SHOCKS A FAMILY A box of photo albums is found in the attic of a house in Hfn, a small fishing village on the south coast of Iceland. The new owners return it to the man who sold them the house, along with a muddied child's shoe with a name written on the sole: Salvor. The man is baffled; they never knew anyone called that. Shortly after the phone rings - it's the nursing home where his mother, an Alzheimer's patient, lives. She's suffered a heart attack and the doctors don't expect her to live much longer. The nurse asks him to let his sister, Salvr, know as well. Their mother has been asking for her. THE SECOND TRACKS TWO MISSING COUPLES Jhanna is a member of a search and rescue team in Hfn and she's searching for two couples from Reykjavik. Their phones' last location has been pinpointed as the road l