{"id":5647,"date":"2026-01-04T01:40:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-girl-who-died-jonasson-ragnar\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T01:40:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:40:43","slug":"the-girl-who-died-jonasson-ragnar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-girl-who-died-jonasson-ragnar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Girl Who Died &#8211; Jonasson, Ragnar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='book-preview'>\n<h3>Book Preview<\/h3>\n<div class=\"body\">\n<section epub:type=\"introduction\" role=\"doc-introduction\">\n<p class=\"TNI\"><span aria-label=\"1\" id=\"pg_1\" role=\"doc-pagebreak\"><\/span><i>Una awoke with a jerk.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"TX\"><i>She opened her eyes but couldn\u2019t see a thing for the darkness pressing in all around her. For a panicky moment she couldn\u2019t work out where she was, though she had the feeling she was in a strange place, not in her own bed. She stiffened with fear. She was so cold. By the feel of it, she\u2019d kicked the covers on to the floor, and the room was freezing.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"TX\"><i>She sat up slowly, experiencing a moment of dizziness, but the feeling soon passed as she remembered where she was.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"TX\"><i>In Sk\u00e1lar on the Langanes Peninsula. In the little attic flat. Alone.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"TX\"><i>And then she knew what it was that had woken her. Or thought she knew \u2026 It was hard to distinguish dream from reality with her senses still wandering in the vague borderland between sleep and waking.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"TX\"><i>She had heard something. What, though? As the memory gradually came back to her, she felt the skin prickling on her arms. It had been a high little voice \u2013 the voice of a young girl, she thought. Yes, now she could hear it again in her head: a young girl singing a lullaby.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"TX\"><i>Unable to bear it a moment longer, she got out of bed and blundered across the pitch-black room towards the light switch on the wall. Not for the first time she cursed the fact that she didn\u2019t have a reading lamp by her bed. Yet she felt a moment\u2019s reluctance to turn on the light, for fear of what the retreating shadows might reveal.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"TX\"><span aria-label=\"2\" id=\"pg_2\" role=\"doc-pagebreak\"><\/span><i>The high voice echoed eerily in her head, but she couldn\u2019t recall the words of the girl\u2019s song. It must have been a dream, however real it had seemed.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"TX\"><i>Suddenly there was a loud crack, followed by a tinkling sound and a stabbing pain in her foot that caused her to stumble and fall heavily to her knees. What the hell?<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"TX\"><i>She bit back a scream, only for it to dawn on her a second later that she had trodden on the wine glass she had left on the floor the previous evening. Fumbling for her foot, she found a shard of glass sticking out of it and felt something hot and wet oozing from the wound. Gingerly, she extracted the glass. The pain was excruciating.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"TX\"><i>It took all her willpower to force herself back on to her feet, then grope along the wall for the switch, but finally she found it and turned on the light. As the room sprang into view, she shot a glance around, half-expecting to see a small figure in there with her, while telling herself that she\u2019d imagined the whole thing: the voice hadn\u2019t been real, the lullaby had been an illusion, a trick played on her by her sleeping mind.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"TX\"><i>Limping back to the bed, she sat down, drew up her foot and examined the cut, which, luckily, turned out not to be as deep as she\u2019d feared. Now she had satisfied herself that she was alone in the room, she could feel her heartbeat slowing and returning to normal.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"TX\"><i>Then, in a flash, the words of the girl\u2019s song came back to her:<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"VF\">Lullaby, my little Thr\u00e1,<\/p>\n<p class=\"VL\">may you sweetly sleep \u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"TX\"><i>A chill spread through her flesh.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr style='margin: 30px 0; border-top: 1px solid #eee;'>\n<p style='text-align:center;'>Read the full book by downloading it below.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/download-is-starting\/?url=https%3A\/\/mega.co.nz\/%23%21k4gXXRqY%21S3QwqIV38QBczOk-SsDHkN-WjpttgOJnUMml003lgYE' class='download-btn' target='_blank'>DOWNLOAD EPUB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Preview Una awoke with a jerk. She opened her eyes but couldn\u2019t see a thing for the darkness pressing in all around her. For a panicky moment she couldn\u2019t work out where she was, though she had the feeling she was in a strange place, not in her own bed. 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