Summary

Chapter 19 begins with Sigurdur Óli filling Erlendur in on his conversation with Elsa. Sigurdur Óli says he still feels like they are wasting their time on this case and hangs up.

Erlendur goes into another flashback. This time he thinks about the last argument he and Eva had two months prior. Eva has returned to her addiction to drugs and alcohol despite being pregnant. Erlendur believes she needs to stop using drugs and alcohol, but she refuses to listen to him because she believes he is being too controlling. Eva then retorts that Erlendur had not even wanted her and that he told her mother to have an abortion. Erlendur denies this and says it is all a lie, but Eva does not believe him. Eva storms out of the house and Erlendur does not hear from her until her desperate call for...