Iceland 1934: Two boys playing see something they shouldn't have. The consequences will haunt them and their families for generations. Iceland 2009: the credit crunch bites. The currency has been devalued savings annihilated lives ruined. Grassroots revolution is in the air as is the feeling that someone ought to pay... And in a country where everyone knows everybody it isn't hard to draw up a list of exactly who is responsible. And then one-by-one to cross them off. Iceland 2010: As bankers and politicians start to die at home and abroad it is up to Magnus Jonson to unravel the web of conspirators. But while Magnus investigates the crimes of the present the crimes of the past are catching up with him.

Part of the Magnus Iceland Mysteries series.