num_pages: 353
description: The light spilling in from the corridor would have to do. Though weak it was sufficient to show Alds a boy sitting in the gloom at the furthest table. He had his back to her so she couldn't see who it was but could tell that he was one of the youngest. A chill ran down her spine when he spoke again without turning as if he had eyes in the back of his head. 'Go away. Leave me alone.''Come on. You shouldn't be here.' Alds spoke gently fairly sure now that the boy must be delirious. Confused rather than dangerous.He turned slowly and deliberately and she glimpsed black eyes in a pale face. 'I wasn't talking to you.'Aldis is working in a juvenile detention centre in rural Iceland. She witnesses something deeply disturbing in the middle of the night; soon afterwards two of the boys at the centre are dead.Decades later single father Odinn is looking into alleged abuse at the centre following the unexplained death of the colleague who was previously running the investigation. The more he finds out though the more it seems the odd events of the 1970s are linked to the accident that killed his ex-wife. Was her death something more sinister?
language: English
title: The Undesired
publisher: Hodder & Stoughton