She wrote The Danes Were in Trouble There, (Par Iagu Danir i pvi), which was her first book for children in 1998. Yrsa started to write fiction in 1998.Īlthough she predominantly writes crime fiction under the fiction umbrella of ‘Nordic noir’ she has also authored five books for children and teenagers. She has also written, to critical acclaim, several stand alone thrillers and horror novels.

She has authored a successful award winning crime series of books based around the central character of Thora Gudmundsdottir, who is a lawyer and single mother of two children. This award winning Icelandic author is famously known for her gritty and hard hitting crime novels set within the suburbs of Iceland. With its confident plotting, chilling atmosphere, and smart, compelling hero*ine, My Soul to Take confirms Yrsa Sigurdard ttir as a new maven of mysteries.Yrsa Sigurdardottir was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, on August 24, 1963. Are the hauntings real, or just a case of folklore gone wild? And, more important, does the farm’s eerie past have something to do with the murder? When another body is discovered looking very much like the first Th ra is forced to put aside her doubts and confront the horrors of the present before a twisted killer strikes again. As Th ra digs deeper into the farm’s past, she discovers long buried information on the property’s disturbing history, and her once solid view of reality begins to waver. At first Th ra dismisses the claims as nothing more than myth and superstition, but even she can’t explain the bizarre occurrences she witnesses in her search for answers.

But upon her arrival she encounters more than a fresh corpse local legend has it that the resort, located in the mystical region of Sn fellsnes on Iceland’s west coast, is haunted. Long buried secrets go hand in hand with modern day murder in this second thriller featuring attorney Th ra Gudmundsd ttir from Iceland’s queen of crime fiction When the body of a young woman badly beaten and with pins inserted into her feet is found at a New Age health resort in a renovated farmhouse, lawyer and single mother of two Th ra Gudmundsd ttir is called upon to represent the chief suspect, the resort’s owner.

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