From Goodreads
When a depressed, alcoholic single mother disappears, everything suggests suicide, but when her body is found, Icelandic Detective Elma and her team are thrust into a perplexing, chilling investigation.
When single mother Maríanna disappears from her home, leaving an apologetic note on the kitchen table, everyone assumes that she’s taken her own life … until her body is found on the Grábrók lava fields seven months later, clearly the victim of murder. Her neglected fifteen-year-old daughter Hekla has been placed in foster care, but is her perfect new life hiding something sinister?
Fifteen years earlier, a desperate new mother lies in a maternity ward, unable to look at her own child, the start of an odd and broken relationship that leads to a shocking tragedy.
Police officer Elma and her colleagues take on the case, which becomes increasingly complex, as the number of suspects grows and new light is shed on Maríanna’s past – and the childhood of a girl who never was like the others…
Breathtakingly chilling and tantalisingly twisty, Girls Who Lie is at once a startling, tense psychological thriller and a sophisticated police procedural, marking Eva Björg Ægisdottir as one of the most exciting new names in crime fiction.
Fifteen years earlier, a desperate new mother lies in a maternity ward, unable to look at her own child, the start of an odd and broken relationship that leads to a shocking tragedy.
Police officer Elma and her colleagues take on the case, which becomes increasingly complex, as the number of suspects grows and new light is shed on Maríanna’s past – and the childhood of a girl who never was like the others…
Breathtakingly chilling and tantalisingly twisty, Girls Who Lie is at once a startling, tense psychological thriller and a sophisticated police procedural, marking Eva Björg Ægisdottir as one of the most exciting new names in crime fiction.
My thoughts
My thanks to the TBC on Facebook reviewer group for a copy of this in exchange for an honest review.
I gave this a 4 stars or 8/10. This was a slow burner that flitted from past to present and kept me engaged throughout. As the list of potential suspects behind Marianna's killing increased I did have my suspicions as to who the guilty person was, but I was wrong.
This story has been translated from Icelandic and I feel that the translation has been done well, keeping the drama of the story there for the reader to enjoy. I have yet to read the first in this series and I will be looking for it soon, in order to get the back story of the main lead characters. My enjoyment of the story was in no way marred by not having read the first in the series. This could easily be read as a standalone story despite it being the second in the series.
I found it a well written and atmospheric read, that brought the Icelandic people and countryside to life.
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