Crime fiction. A first posting for a young policeman takes him away from Reykjavik and his girlfriend, to the remote village of Siglufjörður in Northern Iceland, a place that is hard to reach, accessible only by tunnel. Viewed as an outsider by a small community where everyone knows everyone, he is told ‘not much happens here’ and he finds it difficult to adjust and be accepted. But then a woman is found bleeding and barely conscious and an ageing writer falls to his death in a theatre. Cut off from the rest of Iceland by an avalanche he is drawn into the investigation. Are the incidents connected and is there a killer trapped amongst them?