The Reykjavik ConfessionsSimon CoxLabel: BBC BooksDescription: BASED ON THE CELEBRATED BBC NEWS INVESTIGATION'gripping and bitingly cold… full of fine detail and outrage' – Sunday Times'Gripping' - Evening Standard A true story of false memories.‘Over decades and decades in Iceland people have gone missing without anyone finding anything out. They just sort of disappear...’In 1974 18-year-old Gudmundur disappears after a boozy night in a fishing town near Reykjavik. Eleven months later Geirfinnur a quiet family man goes missing from Keflavik harbour in the southwest of Iceland after being summoned by a mysterious phone call from home. Both men are eventually presumed dead but their bodies are never found.This quiet island is in an uproar - two disappearances with no forensics no leads no clue what has happened. Soon the vanishings set in motion an almost surreal series of events a remarkable tale of corruption forced confession false memory and madness that stretches over 40 years.Based on author Simon Cox's celebrated BBC News investigation The Reykjavik Confessions is a chilling journey of discovery into a dark corner of Icelandic history and a riveting true-crime thriller that will have you gripped until the very last page.
