
The Secrets from the Deep
The new thriller in the million-copy selling, award-winning series
Satu Raemoe(Author)
Bonnier Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 28. May 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-80617-274-0 (ISBN)
Description
THE BRILLIANT FOURTH BOOK IN THE BESTSELLING HILDUR SERIES, SOON TO BE A TV SHOW!
1995: A young German woman disappears in the Westfjords of Iceland, but the case is quickly forgotten. After all, it's not uncommon for foreigners who come to Iceland to vanish, and the police are too busy investigating a fatal car accident, recovering two bodies from the cold waters of the sea.
2022: Detective Hildur Runarsdottir returns from a surfing holiday in Hawaii to a good life. The renovation of her childhood home is progressing, and her colleague and friend Jakob Johanson has permanently joined her in Iceland. But when Hildur visits her family friend, Helga, in a nursing home, she is presented with surprising new details about her mother, Rakel. Then a cruise ship carrying a large group of tourists arrives in Isafjoer?ur, bringing a world of trouble with them.
As the bodies pile up, Hildur and Jakob must look to the past to figure out what lies in front of them.
Translated by Kristian London
Praise for Satu Raemoe:
'Satu Raemoe's Hildur series is a wildly successful publishing phenomenon that has put the genre of "Nordic blue" on Europe's literary map' The Guardian
'Atmospheric and startlingly original' Sunday Times
'Hildur Runarsdottir, a police detective who surfs the icy waters of Iceland, barrels into the genre like a tsunami. This book must be read in one sitting' Max Seeck, NYT and Der Spiegel bestselling author
'Raemoe plans to continue Hildur's story, and if she does it as well as in this, her debut novel, she may become a significant new name in Nordic crime fiction' Helsingin Sanomat
1995: A young German woman disappears in the Westfjords of Iceland, but the case is quickly forgotten. After all, it's not uncommon for foreigners who come to Iceland to vanish, and the police are too busy investigating a fatal car accident, recovering two bodies from the cold waters of the sea.
2022: Detective Hildur Runarsdottir returns from a surfing holiday in Hawaii to a good life. The renovation of her childhood home is progressing, and her colleague and friend Jakob Johanson has permanently joined her in Iceland. But when Hildur visits her family friend, Helga, in a nursing home, she is presented with surprising new details about her mother, Rakel. Then a cruise ship carrying a large group of tourists arrives in Isafjoer?ur, bringing a world of trouble with them.
As the bodies pile up, Hildur and Jakob must look to the past to figure out what lies in front of them.
Translated by Kristian London
Praise for Satu Raemoe:
'Satu Raemoe's Hildur series is a wildly successful publishing phenomenon that has put the genre of "Nordic blue" on Europe's literary map' The Guardian
'Atmospheric and startlingly original' Sunday Times
'Hildur Runarsdottir, a police detective who surfs the icy waters of Iceland, barrels into the genre like a tsunami. This book must be read in one sitting' Max Seeck, NYT and Der Spiegel bestselling author
'Raemoe plans to continue Hildur's story, and if she does it as well as in this, her debut novel, she may become a significant new name in Nordic crime fiction' Helsingin Sanomat
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
242 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80617-274-0 (9781806172740)
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Person
Satu Raemoe is a bestselling Finnish-born crime author who has lived in Iceland for the past twenty years. Her Nordic crime Hildur series has sold over one million copies worldwide and has been a bestseller in Finland, Iceland, Sweden and Germany. A TV adaptation will premiere in 2026 and the series has also been adapted for the stage. Satu has also published numerous bestselling, prizewinning non-fiction titles in her native Finland.
She lives with her Icelandic husband and two children in the small town of Isafjoer?ur in northwest Iceland.
She lives with her Icelandic husband and two children in the small town of Isafjoer?ur in northwest Iceland.