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On December 5, we’ll be discussing Reykjavik: A Crime Story -
by the prime minister of Iceland, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, and international best-selling crime fiction author Ragnar Jónasson.
This lauded novel is set during a transformative time in Iceland’s history - 1986 - a year that saw the city’s 200th anniversary and the Reagan-Gorbachev conference.

In 1956, 14-year-old Lára decides to spend the summer working for a couple on the small island of Videy, just off the coast of Reykjavík, only to disappear without a trace in early August. As time passes, the mystery becomes Iceland’s most infamous unsolved case. What happened to the young girl? Is she still alive? Did she leave the island, or did something happen to her there?

Thirty years later, as the city of Reykjavík celebrates its 200th anniversary, journalist Valur Robertsson begins his own investigation into Lára’s case. But as he draws closer to discovering the secret, and with the eyes of Reykjavík upon him, it soon becomes clear that Lára’s disappearance is a mystery that someone will stop at nothing to keep unsolved…