The latest case for Icelandic sleuth Detective Sigurdur Oli, in which he investigates the murder of a man who was blackmailing an old schoolfriend of his. From the author of }Jar City, Artic Chill{ and many others. 'Essential Scandi-fiction' }Sunday Express Detective Sigurdur Oli is in trouble. After a school reunion exposes the chasm between his life and those of his much more successful contemporaries, leaving him bitter and resentful, one of his old friends asks him to pay an unofficial visit to a couple of blackmailers.