Five former classmates arrive in the Westman Islands to say their final goodbyes to their deceased friend. They don' t expect their shared past to catch up with them here.
On a rocky beach by the sea, near the lighthouse keeper' s house, a burning body is found, and another corpse nearby. Idunn, Týr and Karó take on an investigation in which nothing seems to make sense.
" Every new Yrsa book is a delight for the reader. "
" It will grab you from the first page. "
“Writer Yrsa Sigurðardóttir is a master at creating just the right atmosphere, one that’s even more chilling than her native Iceland. ”
" Spooky, ruthless, intense. " This is how you can describe the style of this Icelandic writer. Instead of tales of happy tourists, she brings terrifying tales of death from the popular Nordic island that will make you want to read more of Yrsa Sigurðardóttir' s books. "
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (1963) is an internationally acclaimed Icelandic author of detective and thriller literature. In 2005, she published her first detective novel, The Last Ritual (Metaphor, 2007), which immediately earned her the nickname "Queen of Nordic Crime" and marked the beginning of her award-winning series with lawyer Tora Gudmunsdóttir. She has cemented her position as one of the best detective authors of our time with a series of stand-alone thrillers that have been translated into more than 30 languages to date, most notably in 2014 with the novel DNA (Metaphora, 2017), the first volume of a free series featuring child psychologist Freyja and detective Huldar. It was followed up a year later with the second volume, Black Hole (Metafora, 2018), and then with the third volume, Catharsis (Metafora Grada, 2019).
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