Where the Shadows Lie

Amid Iceland"s wild, volcanic landscape, rumours swirl of an eight-hundred-year-old manuscript inscribed with along-lost saga about aring of terrible power. Arediscovered saga alone would be worth afortune, but, if the rumours can be believed, there is something much more valuable about this one. Something worth killing for. Something that will cost Professor Agnar Haraldsson his life. Untangling murder from myth is Iceland-born, Boston-raised homicide detective Magnus Jonson. Seconded to the Icelandic Police Force for his own protection after he runs afoul of adrug cartel back in Boston, Magnus also has his own reasons for returning to the country of his birth for the first time in nearly two decades - the unsolved murder of his father. And as Magnus is about to discover, the past casts along shadow in Iceland. Binding Iceland"s landscape and history, secrets and superstitions in astrikingly original plot that will span several volumes, Where the Shadows Lie is the first in athrilling new series from an established master.