Bestselling crime novelist Elín S. Jónsdóttir vanishes on a winter night without a trace. Young detective Helgi takes on the case, racing to solve it before the press gets wind of the scandal. As he questions those closest to her—publisher, accountant, retired judge—he uncovers layers of deception and discovers that Elín’s real life was more bizarre and secretive than any of her fiction. The deeper he digs, the stranger the mystery becomes, forcing Helgi to unravel the truth behind the crime writer’s hidden past.