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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
It was in 1998 that Callum Pope and his girlfriend, Sarah Glass, launched strawdonkey.com, a website publishing on-line travel diaries written by the general public. It proved a massive success and they became media darlings, the glamour couple of the dotcom boom. Then the unimaginable happened. In Prague to celebrate the company's flotation, Sarah was murdered by a madman who then posted the grisly details on the website in the form of a diary entitled 'The Killer's Guide to Prague'. The murder was eventually pinned on Iago Kohl, who'd sent threatening letters to Sarah some years earlier - the police found the horrific travel diary on his PC. Three years later and Kohl is about to be released from prison, having served only two-and-a-bit years of his life sentence. For Callum, it's all too much - he has sold strawdonkey and now he wants to put his past behind him. He leaves Glasgow to start a new life in Iceland with new girlfriend, glaciologist Birna Sveinssdottir and her resentful ten-year-old daughter Asta. Try as he might, Callum can't quite get to grips with the eccentric culture, the impossible language never mind the inedible food. And his biggest hurdle is sharing a house with three generations of strong Icelandic women: B rna, her mother Sigridur aka 'the abominable snow-woman' and a young girl who refuses to accept him. Things take a sinister turn when Callum starts receiving more gruesome travel diaries, all prefixed 'The Killer's Guide to...', all recounting idiosyncratic killings in cities as diverse as Vancouver, Bangkok and Bombay. Callum believes that Iago Kohl, a known fantasist, is tormenting him. The police seem powerless: there's no evidence it's Kohl and no murders have been reported. But then Asta goes missing and Callum receives an email entitled 'The Killer's Guide to Iceland'... He knows Anna is in mortal danger. If they are to get Asta back, he must tell B rna about his past and risk losing her forever. Their only hope of finding Asta alive resides in the few clues in the 'Killer's Guides' and their combined knowledge of the vast, impenetrable Icelandic landscape. It's a physical and emotional journey, assuming the proportions of a contemporary Icelandic saga, as both a girl's life and a couple's relationship are put on the line...
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