The Sleeping and the DeadA classic crime novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope series.

Combining mythology and folklore from all across the globe

In Amsterdam

This timely and compelling novel is the story of a different catastrophic event

in the south of France

Diana and Matthew travel back in time to London

The answer lies somewhere between

But when Bitterblue's envoys to Winterkeep drown under suspicious circumstances

in the wake of the world financial crisis of 2008

interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune-stones and ship burials

thoughtful novel will warm your heart and nourish your soul' Red Magazine'(A) thoughtful

Rather than being grouped in taxonomic order

while weaving her family's story into the broader