Girls Who Lie

By: Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, Victoria Cribb - translator

Narrated by: Diana Croft

When single mother Maríanna disappears from her home, leaving an apologetic note on the kitchen table, everyone assumes that she's taken her own life...until her body is found in the Grábrók lava fields seven months later, clearly the victim of murder. Her neglected 15-year-old daughter, Hekla, has been placed in foster care, but is her perfect new life hiding something sinister?

Fifteen years earlier, a desperate new mother lies in a maternity ward, unable to look at her own child, the start of an odd and broken relationship that leads to a shocking tragedy. Police officer Elma and her colleagues take on the case, which becomes increasingly complex, as the number of suspects grows and new light is shed on Maríanna's past - and the childhood of a girl who never was like the others....

©2019, 2021 Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, Translation Victoria Cribb (P)2021 Isis Publishing Ltd

Really great series

I truly enjoyed this book. Once I got the names straight I could follow along easily. I’m listening to the next book now.

Terrific

I like this author’s insight into the everyday worries and questions we all grapple with. Her characters are believable and their stories are compelling. She deftly jumps around in time and smoothly switches voice without too much interruption to the forward movement of the narrative. The reader is fabulous - differentiating characters and time without being over the top. Extremely well performed.

Diabolically Clever twist

The narrative was so we'll constructed that I gave the author a pass on two crucial and unlikely decisions made by two of the characters.

Talk about twists!

Great fun and, just when you’d figured it out…well, no, you hadn’t. Couldn’t put it down.

4+

A fine mystery- a lot of layers our intrepid detectives have to sort
through. It is a good ride for the
listener - lots of small town gossip
sprinkled with hard police work.
I liked it. I've been listening
to lots of Audible mysteries set in Iceland. This one ranks right with the best. Now I wait for the author's next
book...