Old bones comes to light on a remote farm in the north of Iceland. Detective Helgi Svavarsson is reluctant to get involved with what looks like something he feels calls for an archaeologist rather than a policeman.
In any case, he's off duty and has family business to attend to. But he can't help but be intrigued as suspicion falls on the now elderly woman who farmed at Fagrabrekka for so many years – and what became of the man who caught the bus south one winter afternoon, forty-two years ago?
This short story is a standalone continuation of the Gunnhildur books. It was initially intended as the outline of a full-length novel that never came together... But it could yet, one day...
Genre: Mystery
In any case, he's off duty and has family business to attend to. But he can't help but be intrigued as suspicion falls on the now elderly woman who farmed at Fagrabrekka for so many years – and what became of the man who caught the bus south one winter afternoon, forty-two years ago?
This short story is a standalone continuation of the Gunnhildur books. It was initially intended as the outline of a full-length novel that never came together... But it could yet, one day...
Genre: Mystery
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