Settling on an abandoned farm, cut off from the world by harsh nature, was a very risky undertaking: on one side there is the icy northern sea, on the other there are mountains that can only be overcome through a pass covered with snow, and pitch darkness... In an old photograph, fell into the hands of Ari Thor, a policeman from a small Icelandic town, all the participants in the tragedy that took place here many years ago were captured, among them a young woman poisoned by rat poison... Ari Thor undertakes to shed light on this old story, but will it be the beginning of a new one? life drama?.. The secrets of the past are connected with the mysteries of the present, and the investigation led by Ari Thor is intertwined with the case of the kidnapping of a child and the investigation of strange murders in Reykjavik. “The Sundering” is the third novel in the series about Ari Thor, which has become a worldwide bestseller, as and other works by Ragnar Jonasson, the “king of Scandinavian noir,” who has won prestigious literary awards and is recognized as one of the best contemporary writers working in the detective genre.