Where the Shadows Lie

Summary

One thousand years ago: an Icelandic warrior returns from battle, bearing a ring cut from the right hand of his foe.

Seventy years ago: an Oxford professor, working from a secret source, creates the 20th century’s most pervasive legend. The professor’s name? John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. 

Six hours ago: an expert on Old Icelandic literature, Agnar Haraldsson, is murdered. Everything is connected, but to discover how, Detective Magnus Jonson must venture where the shadows lie....

©2010 Michael Ridpath (P)2011 Isis Publishing Ltd