This is the Guardian.

Hi, my name is Zan Rice, and I'm the author of the Murder that shook Iceland.

A story about the disappearance and murder of a young woman

in Iceland, one of the safest countries in the world.

I remember reading about the story and article on the internet in January of 2017.

I was drawn to it because the sort of interesting part from a news point of view was that there was virtually no violent crime in Iceland.

And a young person going missing in almost any other country is news, but not major nationwide news.

But in Iceland this was a major thing.

I thought it was probably the right time then because it was no longer a kind of sensational story.

So the media in Iceland had moved on, the international media had moved on.

And I thought it would be an opportunity to tell the story in its entirety without the sensation and without the sort of media pressure on all the people who involved in the case.

There were a couple of things I wanted to be sure of before I went to go and report the story.

And I guess the main thing was that I'd be able to talk to someone from Beirina's family and that they would be happy with someone doing a long piece about the story.

Because I didn't want to go in and cause any more pain or any more intrusion.

It was a year later, but obviously the grief was still there.

And I didn't feel like I could tell the story without knowing a lot about Beirina.

So that was crucial.

And I was lucky I found her in Icelandic journalists who had reported on the story who put me in touch with Beirina's mother.

So when I got to Reykjavik, I met with Beirina's mother, Silla.

I went to her apartment and she had got a couple of Beirina's friends over as well.

And we just chatted for a couple of hours about Beirina's life and what she was like as a person, how funny she was, how about sort of life loving she was.

There wasn't about the crime itself. It was really just about her.

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