This is set in contemporary Reykjavik, Iceland. Idunn (the letter d has a cross and I believe it’s pronounced Ithunn) works in an office. She does not sleep well. She goes to several doctors. She takes sleeping pills. No one has a concrete answer for her.

One morning she wakes up with dirt and blood on herself. Huge bruises with no idea how she got them. She is a loner and lives her life by rote: Goes to work, has lunch and drinks with friends after work.

Stefan her old boyfriend works in her office on another floor in IT. He wants to get back together with Idunn but she’s done with him. He’s married.

Idunn is worried she is sleep walking. But where does she go? Why does she wake up battered? And where are all the neighbors cats disappearing to?

She meets a business man at a bar named Mar. They actually get along well. But she still finds violent signs of her wandering the night. She gets her watch to track her steps. Several thousand steps finds her in an industrial section of town down at the shore.

What is bringing her there? Why is she compelled to go to this deserted shed she has to climb a fence to get to. And what does she find in its abandoned interior? Is her dead sister a clue to it all?

Ms. Knuttsdottir approaches this creepy tale in a dry flat manner that makes this horror story that much creepier.

A chilling twisted novel composed of brusque sharp sentences that will give you the willies! ~~ Sue Martin