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- COLD AS HELL
- PRONUNCIATION GUIDE
- CONTENTS
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- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
- COPYRIGHT
Mark Swan is the man behind the stunning covers of my English-language books; I feel he has outdone himself with this one. The marketing team is always active and inventive, and I want to thank Cole Sullivan especially for all his work on my books. I also thank the book bloggers and reviewers who have taken the time to read, contemplate and write about my work. I am truly grateful.262
Then there is the woman who makes it all happen: Karen Sullivan, Orenda’s publisher. I cannot thank her enough for taking a chance on my writing in the first place, always being there and putting such an incredible amount of energy and enthusiasm into her magnificent work. I am proud to be a member of ‘Team Orenda’.
Last but not least I want to thank the readers! Thank you for reading and for your wonderful feedback on the various online platforms. I do hope you enjoy this first instalment of the Áróra Investigation series.
—Lilja
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Icelandic crime-writer Lilja Sigurðardóttir was born in the town of Akranes in 1972 and raised in Mexico, Sweden, Spain and Iceland. An award-winning playwright and screenwriter, Lilja has written eight crime novels, including Snare, Trap and Cage, making up the Reykjavík Noir trilogy, and her standalone thriller Betrayal, all of which have hit bestseller lists worldwide. Snare was longlisted for the CWA International Dagger, Cage won Best Icelandic Crime Novel of the Year and was a Guardian Book of the Year, and Betrayal was shortlisted for the prestigious Glass Key Award and won Icelandic Crime Novel of the Year. The film rights for the Reykjavík Noir trilogy have been bought by Palomar Pictures in California. She lives in Reykjavík with her partner. You’ll find Lilja on Twitter @lilja1972 and on her website liljawriter.com.
ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
A series of unlikely coincidences allowed Quentin Bates to escape English suburbia as a teenager with the chance of a gap year working in Iceland. For a variety of reasons, the year stretched to become a gap decade, during which time he went native in the north of Iceland, acquiring a new language, a new profession and a family.
He is the author of a series of crime novels set in present-day Iceland. His translations include works by Guðlaugur Arason, Ragnar Jónasson, Einar Kárason and Sólveig Pálsdóttir, as well as Lilja Sigurðardóttir’s Reykjavík Noir trilogy, standalone novel Betrayal and the Áróra series. Follow Quentin on Twitter @graskeggur.
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COPYRIGHT
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First published in Icelandic as Helköld sól by Forlagið in 2019
First published in English by Orenda Books in 2021
Copyright © Lilja Sigurðardóttir, 2019
English translation copyright © Quentin Bates, 2021
Lilja Sigurðardóttir has asserted her moral right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.