Cold breath : an Icelandic murder mystery /
by Bates, Quentin.
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BookPublisher: London : Constable, 2018Description: 311 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781472127761 (pbk.) :; 1472127765 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Gisladottir, Gunnhildur, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Crime | Crime | Iceland -- Fiction | Detective and mystery storiesSummary: Gunnhildur reluctantly allows herself to be taken off police duties to act as bodyguard to a man with a price on his head. Hidden away in a secure house outside Reykjavik, Gunna and the high-profile stranger, a guest of the interiors minister, are thrown together - too close for comfort. They soon find they are neither as safe nor as carefully hidden as Gunna and her boss had thought. Conflicting glimpses of the man's past start to emerge as the press begin to sniff him out, as does another group with their own reasons for locating him. Gunna struggles to come to terms with protecting the life of a man who may have the lives of many on his conscience - or indeed may be the philanthropist he claims to be.
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| Book - Adult Paperback | Netherton Library | Adult Fiction | Available | 002962261X |
Gunnhildur reluctantly allows herself to be taken off police duties to act as bodyguard to a man with a price on his head. Hidden away in a secure house outside Reykjavik, Gunna and the high-profile stranger, a guest of the interiors minister, are thrown together - too close for comfort. They soon find they are neither as safe nor as carefully hidden as Gunna and her boss had thought. Conflicting glimpses of the man's past start to emerge as the press begin to sniff him out, as does another group with their own reasons for locating him. Gunna struggles to come to terms with protecting the life of a man who may have the lives of many on his conscience - or indeed may be the philanthropist he claims to be.
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