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2025: A woman leaves her husband on an uninhabited island but when she returns, he is nowhere to be seen….
One True Word
What you need to know before your trail
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?
Travel Guide
Iceland – Hvalfjörður
A woman wants to visit a small, bare uninhabited islet in Hvalfjörður as research for a writing project she is working on. So, she basically forces her husband to go with her as he’s not so keen. The islet in question is never named and is fictional anyway, but there’s a great sense of what it would be like to travel to an island where no one lives and where no one could hear you scream..
What would happen if someone went missing? What could possibly happen? How does this stand in the eyes of the law?
There is something locked room and very unique if ambiguous about this island and the couple who go there.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: One True Word
Destination/location: Iceland, Hvalfjörður Author/guide: Snæbjörn Arngrímsson Departure Time: 2025
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