This book is very noir in that Hekla who is very beautiful, ends up married to her gay best friend Jón John. But I haven't said that they got married so that she could write and he could be left alone to meet men. And he would support her so she could write her friends and father besides books and poetry. This book is spent in Iceland and Denmark plus probably Spain. Hekla moved to Reykjavik and Ísey her best girl friend had a baby girl, her husband Lýdur was never home because of work. They write letters all the time, and Hekla father talks on the phone to her. When she finds a job she is always told that she would make the best Miss Iceland by her customers and one in particular. She meets a male librarian, Starkadur, and moves in with him but she hides that she is a poet and a writer of books. This doesn't prove a problem until he finds out about her gay male friend. Jón John has sailed away to Denmark on a ship. Hekla meets Starkadur's mother in a trip to his home during a vacation period and says she's only a girl friend not a potential wife. Then she gets a ticket from Jón John to come to Denmark. Things get involved and they end up getting married and leaving for the south. Hekla ends up sending a book to Starkadur for him to put it in his name on it. This is the story as Hekla tells it and it has many, many more parts to it. It's not a crime book at all but it is a good read I would recommend it to my people.