Secrets from the Deep (2026)

The brilliant fourth book in the Hildur series, soon to be a TV show. In 1995, a young German woman disappears in Iceland’s Westfjords, but the case is soon forgotten. The police are too busy investigating a fatal car accident and recovering two bodies from the cold sea. In 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 learns surprising new details about her mother, Rakel. Then a cruise ship carrying a large group of tourists arrives in Isafjoerdur, bringing a world of trouble with it. As the bodies pile up, Hildur and Jakob must look to the past to discover what lies ahead. Translated by Kristian London. Satu Ramoe’s Hildur series has been praised as a wildly successful publishing phenomenon that has put “Nordic blue” on Europe’s literary map, as atmospheric and startlingly original, and as a powerful contribution to Nordic crime fiction.