The Diplomat's Wife
I am interrupting my Icelandic saga to tell you about my new novel which has just come out: The Diplomat's Wife . It’s not about Magnus, or Iceland, it’s a stand-alone thriller. It's part road trip around Cold War Europe and part pre-World War 2 spy thriller. For the last ten or so years, I have been alternating my Icelandic crime novels with thrillers on other subjects. I find the change stimulating, and my publisher seems to like it too. A visit to Iceland provided an important spark for The Diplomat’s Wife. I knew I wanted to write about the 1930s. In my previous researches I had been amazed at how little education many of the daughters of the aristocracy received - a lot of them didn’t even go to school - and also by how young they were when they married. I wanted to write a story about a highly intelligent, completely uneducated aristocrat, who married young and became involved in some kind of espionage. I wanted to ...