One True Word

Authors: Snæbjorn Arngrimsson & Larissa Kyzer

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) | Thriller / suspense | Fiction in translation

Published on 4^th December 2025 by Pushkin Press (Pushkin Vertigo) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 352 pages
197mm x 130mm x 22mm | 260g

The no.1 icelandic bestseller!

'So gripping I simply couldn't put it down' Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, author of The Creak on the Stairs

'A truly unusual crime novel which kept me reading until the very end... highly enjoyable' Katrín Jakobsdóttir, former Icelandic Prime Minister and author of Reykjavik: A Crime Story

Why did she do it?

After a day of simmering tension on a trip to an uninhabited island, Júlia snaps and leaves her husband Gíó marooned in the middle of a freezing fjord in the depths of the Icelandic winter, with night drawing in.

When she regrets her decision and returns, he is nowhere to be found. The police launch a manhunt, but soon their suspicion falls on his wife. She spins them a story to hide her involvement, but she can feel the net closing in.

Is Gíó alive or dead? In hiding or hunting her down? And can Júlia get to the truth before it destroys her?