Reckoning A Completely Chilling Thriller, from the Queen of Icelandic Noir
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Author of the bestselling Thora Gudmundsdottir crime series and several stand-alone thrillers, Yrsa Sigurdardottir was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1963 and works as a civil engineer. She made her crime fiction debut in 2005 with LAST RITUALS, the first instalment in the Thora Gudmundsdottir series, and has been translated into more than 30 languages. Her work stands 'comparison with the finest contemporary crime writing anywhere in the world' according to the Times Literary Supplement. In 2015 THE SILENCE OF THE SEA won the Petrona Award for the year's best Scandinavian crime novel. All of her books have been European bestsellers. Victoria Cribb has translated over thirty-five books by Icelandic authors. Her translations of Moonstone and CoDex 1962 were both longlisted for the PEN America Translation Prize and in 2017 she received the Ordstír honorary translation award for services to Icelandic literature.THE RECKONING is another chilling, atmospheric tale from t<b>he undisputed Queen of Icelandic Noir. I loved it.</b>
- Simon Kernick,
There's no waffle in The Reckoning: it is <b>brutal, baroque and ends with a brilliant last-minute twist</b>.
Evening Standard
One of the <b>best books I've read for a long time</b>: <b>dark, creepy, and gripping</b> from beginning to end.
- Stuart MacBride, author of the <i>Logan McRae</i> series,
It's addictive, bleak, and <b>will give you thrills and chills in equal measures</b>.
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Yrsa Sigurdardóttir has with her <b>large-scale and genuinely intelligent </b>stories attempted to find the core of Iceland's distinctive society, and thus pushed the Icelandic crime novel tradition many steps forward.
- Arne Dahl,
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir's incredible gift of <b>mixing the macabre and the poignant,</b> together with the astute observations of the ordinary life, sprinkled with a <b>dark sense of humour</b>, keeps on giving in buckets. Her imagination knows no bounds, <b>turning the most ordinary objects into deadly weapons</b>... The nuanced writing encompasses the thriller's overwhelming sense of doom as it explores the failings of the society to protect victims.
- Crime Review,
<b>A dark story by a brilliant author.</b> A densely plotted, multifaceted and compelling book. Exceeds most novels in the thriller genre.
- Erik Axl Sund,
Praise for THE LEGACY
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Iceland's <b>outstanding</b> crime novelist
Daily Express
Yrsa remains the queen of Icelandic thriller writers.
Guardian
If you like your crime fiction<b> dark and engaging</b>, look no further. THE LEGACY is <b>as brutal as it gets</b>. A cracking start to a new series by Yrsa Sigurdardottir.
Mari Hannah, author of the DCI Kate Daniels series
'Yrsa is a magnificent writer' Karin Slaughter
'The queen of Icelandic thriller writers' Guardian
A chilling note written by a thirteen-year-old predicting the deaths of six people is found in a time capsule, ten years after it was buried. Can it be a real threat?
Detective Huldar turns to psychologist Freyja to help understand the child who hid the message.
But the discovery of the letter coincides with a string of murders. All of the victims match the initials from the note.
Huldar and Freyja must race to identify the writer and the murderer, before the rest of the targets are killed...
'One of the best books I've read for a long time: dark, creepy, and gripping from beginning to end.' Stuart MacBride
'Will give you thrills and chills in equal measures.' Cosmopolitan