Icelandic detective Erlendur is back, in a new novel dominated by drug-dealers, a cold case involving a missing schoolgirl, a CIA operative and the murky history of America's presence in Iceland. The author will make a rare UK visit on publication, appearing at the 2015 Harrogate crime festival. THE QUICKA woman swims in a remote, milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises from the water and as it clears, a body is revealed in the ghostly light.THE DEADMiles away, a vast aircraft hangar rises behind the perimeter fence of the US military base. A sickening thud is heard as a man's body falls from a high platform.THE FORGOTTENMany years before, a schoolgirl went missing. The world has forgotten her. But Erlendur has not.THE SEARCHERErlendur Sveinsson is a newly promoted detective with a battered body, a rogue CIA operative and America's troublesome presence in Iceland to contend with. In his spare time he investigates a cold case. He is only starting out but he is already up to his neck.'His novels are gripping, authentic, haunting and lyrical' - Harlan Coben