Boys Who Hurt: The chilling, intriguing, MASTERFUL new Forbidden Iceland mystery

Detective Elma investigates a murder in a holiday cottage in Iceland, finding a shocking message scrawled on the wall. Sævar discovers a diary of a young boy that may be related to the case, but local secrets and Sævar's own secrets threaten to destroy their happiness. The next installment in the award-winning Forbidden Iceland series is tense, twisty, and shocking.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 276 pages
Publication date: 20 June 2024
Publisher: Orenda Books

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, a young boy, has been brutally stabbed, 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 of a diary 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.

Weight: 224g
Dimension: 198 x 129 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781916788206