
2018 Longlist
Why Did You Lie?
Translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb
ABOUT
THE BOOK
A journalist on the track of an old case attempts suicide.
An ordinary couple return from a house swap in the states to find their home in disarray and their guests seemingly missing.
Four strangers struggle to find shelter on a windswept spike of rock in the middle of a raging sea.
They have one thing in common: they all lied.
And someone is determined to punish them…
Why Did You Lie? is a terrifying tale of long-delayed retribution from Iceland’s Queen of Suspense.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
Three stories of differently troubled relationships are all connected by a past crime in this tightly plotted mystery. Why Did You Lie? is a gloomy crime novel which deals with issues of grief, mistrust, paranoia and (of course) lies.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Date published
01/01/2017
Publisher
Hodder and Stoughton
Translator
Victoria Cribb
Translation
Translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb
Nominating Library