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Fresh from maternity leave, Detective Elma finds herself confronted with a complex case, when a man is found murdered in a holiday cottage in the depths of the Icelandic countryside - the victim of a frenzied knife attack, with a shocking message scrawled on the wall above him. At home with their baby daughter, Sævar is finding it hard to let go of work, until the chance discovery in a discarded box provides him with a distraction. Could the diary of a young boy, detailing the events of a long-ago summer have a bearing on Elma's case? Once again, the team at West Iceland CID have to contend with local secrets in the small town of Akranes, where someone has a vested interest in preventing the truth from coming to light. And Sævar has secrets of his own that threaten to destroy his and Elma's newfound happiness. Tense, twisty and shocking, Boys Who Hurt is the next, addictive instalment in the award-winning Forbidden Iceland series, as dark events from the past endanger everything...
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4 primary booksForbidden Iceland is a 4-book series with 4 released primary works first released in 2018 with contributions by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir.
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Boys Who Hurt is the fifth book in the Hidden Iceland series by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir and, in my humble opinion, is the best in the series to date. It's certainly my favourite.
Murder, links to an historical crime, police corruption, physical abuse of children, secrets and lies. All of these are recurring themes in the book, and make for chilling reading. Setting the story in the run up to Christmas just adds to the atmosphere. The plot is complex and intricately woven. It took me a while to figure out who the killer was. That's the mark of a great book, in my opinion.
I adore this series, and I'm already looking forward to the next book.