Join internationally bestselling author Satu Rämö at Bodies in the Bookshop as she talks about her latest Nordic-set crime novel.

1995: A young German woman disappears in the Westfjords of Iceland, but the case is quickly forgotten. After all, it's not uncommon for foreigners who come to Iceland to vanish, and the police are too busy investigating a fatal car accident, recovering two bodies from the cold waters of the sea.

2022: Detective Hildur Rúnarsdóttir returns from a surfing holiday in Hawaii to a good life. The renovation of her childhood home is progressing, and her colleague and friend Jakob Johanson has permanently joined her in Iceland. But when Hildur visits her family friend, Helga, in a nursing home, she is presented with surprising new details about her mother, Rakel. Then a cruise ship carrying a large group of tourists arrives in Ísafjörður, bringing a world of trouble with them.

As the bodies pile up, Hildur and Jakob must look to the past to figure out what lies in front of them.

Satu won the Petrona Award in 2025 and was also shortlisted for the CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger the same year. The Secrets from the Deep is the fifth book in her Icelandic-set Hildur series - with a TV adaptation soon to come to streaming platforms in the UK.

This is one of our series of exclusive events that take place in the intimate setting of the bookshop, therefore a limited number of spaces are available.

Tickets are £6 to include a glass of wine or soft drink.

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