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Icelandic politician Katrín Júlíusdóttir's award-winning debut – first in a breathtaking series…**Winner of the Blackbird Award for Best Icelandic Crime Debut** ‘A breathtaking political thriller from one of Iceland’s most exciting new voices’ Eva Björg Ægisdóttir‘Katrín Júlíusdóttir skilfully weaves together intense family dynamics
who is trying to build an idyllic life in Dorset with his younger lover
a week's peaceful convalescence in one of Dorset's most beautiful manor houses and the beginning of a new life
where his mother is a racehorse trainer and the 'First Lady' of racing
The novel features various generations over the course of 150 years in interconnecting stories
Eavesdropper W. W. Norton and Company Icelandic politician Katrín Júlíusdóttir's award-winningA trainer loses his licence; a jockey is warned off: all in a day's work for the senior steward of the Jockey Club. But when the blackmailing starts, when a most influential corpse is found in a horse box at Newbury races, a cloud of corruption, suspicion and violence threatens to overwhelm the National Hunt season. James Thackeray, racing journalist, erratic tipster, amateur jockey, had every reason to turn detective. He'd found the body. But it was
