The Prey - Yrsa Sigurdardottir - Bog

A box of photo albums is found in the attic of a recently sold house in Höfn, a small fishing village on the south coast of Iceland. The new owners return it to the seller in Reykjavik, a man who inherited the house along with his brother. Besides the box, the owners hand him a muddied child's shoe, saying they found it during the removal of the lot's old flagpole. The seller cleans the shoe, searching for a mark like the one his mother used to put on his brother's clothing. He finally finds one, but the name is neither his nor his brother's. It's a girl's name: Salvör. The man is baffled; they never knew a girl named Salvör. Shortly after the phone rings - it's the nursing home where his mother, an Alzheimer's patient, lives. She's suffered a heart attack and the doctors don't expect her to live much longer. The nurse asks him to let his brother know as well as their sister, Salvör. Their mother has been asking for her. Jóhanna is a member of a search and rescue team in Höfn and she's searching for two couples from Reykjavik. Their phones' last location has been pinpointed as the road leading up into the highlands. It's far from clear why these people would have made such a risky trip in the middle of the harsh winter, and they soon find the first dead body.Hjörvar works at the Stokksnes Radar Station, remotely situated on a small peninsula approximately 30 minutes away from Höfn. He is working alone when the phone connected to the gate rings. It's the first time it's done so since he began working there five months ago. He picks up the phone but can hear only interference and what might be a woman's or a child's voice. Peering outside, he sees no one. The day after, he tells his colleague about the strange events, and the other man is strangely alarmed at the news, He finally he tells Hjörvar that the man he replaced had begun acting oddly just before his death, reporting events very similar to these before he climbed onto the rocks outside and drowned. THE PREY tells the story of the two couples who made the journey into the highlands, and how the trip of their dreams slowly transformed into a nightmare. What connects this doomed expedition to the ghostly happenings at the radar station and a little girl that died decades ago?