Bio

Eva Björg Ægisdóttir‘s debut, The Creak on the Stairs was published in English by Orenda Books in 2020, and became a No. 1 digital bestseller, winning the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger. Girls Who Lie, Night Shadows, You Can’t See Me and Boys Who Hurt soon followed suit, shortlisting for the CWA Crime in Translation Dagger and multiple other awards. In 2024, Eva won Iceland’s prestigious Crime Fiction Award, the Blood Drop, for Home before Dark and was shortlisted for the coveted Glass Key. Eva is one of Iceland’s bestselling and most distinguished crime writers with over a million copies of her books sold in over 20 languages.