''Hildur'' is a

detective novel Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as specu ...

series written by Finnish-Icelandic author

Satu Rämö Satu Rämö (born 1980) is a Finnish-Icelandic author and an entrepreneur in communications. Education Rämö earned her Master of Science in Economics (''kauppatieteiden maisteri'') and a Bachelor of Arts (''humanististen tieteiden kandidaatti ...

. A play based on the novels premiered Autumn 2024 at Turku City Theatre. The play has been dramatized by Satu Rasila and it is directed by Anne Rautiainen. ''Hildur'' will also be made into a television series. As of January 2024, the publishing rights to the ''Hildur'' series have been sold to 13 countries, including Germany, France, the UK, the Nordics, and the Baltic countries.

Plot

Hildur Rúnarsdóttir is an Icelandic police officer haunted by the past. Hildur (born in a fictional farm Kotsdalur, in

Westfjords The Westfjords or West Fjords (, ) is a large peninsula in northwestern Iceland and an administrative region, the least populous in the country. It lies on the Denmark Strait, facing the east coast of Greenland. It is connected to the rest of I ...

) lives and works at a village called

Ísafjörður Ísafjörður (pronounced , meaning ''ice fjord'', literally ''fjord of ices'') is a town in the northwest of Iceland. The oldest part of Ísafjörður with the town centre is located on a spit of sand, or ''eyri'', in Skutulsfjörður, a fjord ...

, where she looks into the mysteries of her family while solving murders. A close colleague of Hildur is a Finnish police officer Jakob (born in

Helsinki Helsinki () is the Capital city, capital and most populous List of cities and towns in Finland, city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About people live in the municipali ...

), with family roots in Äkäslompolo.

Novels

# ''Hildur''. Helsinki: WSOY, 2022. # ''Rósa & Björk''. Helsinki: WSOY, 2023. # ''Jakob''. Helsinki: WSOY, 2023. # ''Rakel''. Helsinki: WSOY, 2024.

References

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