Death at the Sanatorium

Death at the Sanatorium

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Fresh off his career-changing standalone co-written with Icelandic PM, Reykjavík, #1 Icelandic bestseller Jonasson presents a riveting new thriller spinoff from The Darkness, soon to be a TV series.

1983

At a former sanatorium in the north of Iceland, now a hospital ward, an old nurse, Yrsa, is found murdered. Detective Hulda Hermannsdottir and her boss, Sverrir, are sent to investigate her death. There, they discover five suspects: the chief physician, two junior nurses, a young doctor, and the caretaker, who is arrested following false testimony from one of the nurses, but subsequently released.

Less than a week after the murder, the chief physician, is also found dead, having apparently fallen from a balcony. Sverrir, rules his death as suicide and assumes that he was guilty of the murder as well. The case is closed.

2012

Almost thirty years later, Helgi Reykdal, a young police officer, has been studying criminology in the UK, but decides to return to Iceland when he is offered a job at the Reykjavik police department—the job which detective Hulda Hermannsdottir is about to retire from.

He is also a collector of golden age detective stories, and is writing his thesis on the 1983 murders in the north. As Helgi delves deeper into the past, and starts his new job, he decides to try to meet with the original suspects. But soon he finds silence and suspicion at every turn, as he tries to finally solve the mystery from years before.

Release date: September 10, 2024

Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

Print pages: 336

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The year is 2012 and Helgi Reykdal is writting a dissertation for his criminology studies on tow murders that happened days apart at a sanatorium that was closed to patients and used for research purposes only in 1983. Helgi pours over the police file from the case file and tries to talk to the surviving employees who worked during the murders. One woman refuses to speak to him. Her husband gets very gruff in advising Helgi to leave his wife alone. And as strange as it seems, the husband is a retired policeman who actually was in charge of the murder case in 1983. A few days a...
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The year is 2012 and Helgi Reykdal is writting a dissertation for his criminology studies on tow murders that happened days apart at a sanatorium that was closed to patients and used for research purposes only in 1983. Helgi pours over the police file from the case file and tries to talk to the surviving employees who worked during the murders. One woman refuses to speak to him. Her husband gets very gruff in advising Helgi to leave his wife alone. And as strange as it seems, the husband is a retired policeman who actually was in charge of the murder case in 1983. A few days after trying to speak to the woman she is found murdered. Helgi, who has just been hired at the police dept. is assigned to assist on the new murder case. In doing so he not only solves the new murder case, but also the double murder from 1983.
(Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy)
 on 8/15/24
emotionally riveting entertaining story realistic characters suspenseful unexpected twists unputdownable
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