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    Stop Dead

    Narrated by Karen Cass ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Icelandic Mystery

    Unabridged

    7 hours 15 min

    When detective-in-training Sigurdís interrupts her studies in the US to return to Iceland, after discovering that the investigation into her abusive father's death has been dropped, she's plunged into a completely new case when a controversial TV personality is murdered during the Reykjavík Marathon. Icelandic detective-in-training Sigurdís is studying criminal psychology in the US, but her plans ... Read more

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    One True Word

    Narrated by Liv Austen ...

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    Why did she do it?After a day of simmering tension on a trip to an uninhabited island, Júlia finally reaches her breaking point. In a fit of fury she makes a reckless decision—leaving her husband Gíó marooned in the middle of a freezing fjord in the depths of the Icelandic winter. As the cold dark of night swiftly approaches, she leaves without looking back.When she regrets her decision and ... Read more

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