Summary

Chapter 13 begins with Erlendur thinking about the abused woman and child he had encountered while looking for Eva Lind. An enquiry into the woman’s situation had revealed that she had been seen in the emergency room multiple times for injuries that she claimed were due to a car accident and that her partner has a police record.

Elínborg goes to see Róbert’s daughter, Harpa. Harpa does not know anything about a group of children in the chalet or the crooked woman by the redcurrent bushes.

Erlendur arrives at the British embassy to see if there was a military base near the hill. He learns that there was a base in the area during WWII and that the Americans took over the base. His contact is doing more investigation into the base to give him more information.

Meanwhile, Sigurdur Óli...