The Darkness by Ragnar Jonasson

Hulda is an Icelandic cop who is being pushed out of her job early - well, at 64 she considers it too early. She is given a couple of weeks and is released from all her casework but her boss throws her a bone by letting her look at dead cases and it is the one of a young Russian asylum seeker that was deemed a suicide that has Hulda's interest. She is determined to add up all the little details that were overlooked by her colleague and in doing so, makes herself a nuisance. We get a glimpse of her bulldog reluctance to let it go and how her unusual upbringing adds to her feelings about this case. There is a constant reference to how remote the Icelandic landscape is and you realize that there are so many places a killer could hide or hide a body. Time may be running out for Hulda. Grizzly Scandinavian noir thriller with a likable "not ready to retire" heroine - Hulda is the Agatha Christie of Iceland.