When a polar bear is sighted in a sleepy Icelandic fishing village, then shot dead by local policeman Constable Halld�r, it triggers a debate in the local community. Was Halld�r a hero for killing the bear, or should the animal have been protected?
Animal rights activists in the area see the constable as a villain, and when days later the dead body of Halld�r is discovered at a remote beauty spot, the activists are immediately under suspicion.
As Sergeant Magnus Ragnarsson and his colleague Detective Vigd�s Audard�tti begin to investigate the policeman's murder, they soon discover that things are not as clear-cut as might first appear. By degrees, Magnus and Vigd�s are drawn into this small and complex community - one riven with rivalries and grudges - in search of a deadly killer...
