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The Reckoning : A Completely Chilling Thriller, from the Queen of Icelandic Noir - Yrsa Sigurdardottir

The Reckoning

A Completely Chilling Thriller, from the Queen of Icelandic Noir

By: Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Paperback | 29 January 2019 | Edition Number 1

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A time capsule is unearthed from a school playground - containing a threat of deaths to come. As Freyja and Huldar look for the writer, the murders start...

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...

About the Author

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 installment 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. The second installment in the Thora Gudmundsdottir series, My Soul To Take , was shortlisted for the 2010 Shamus Award.

In 2011 her stand-alone horror novel I Remember You was awarded the Icelandic Crime Fiction Award and was nominated for The Glass Key, and has been made into a film starring Johannes Haukur by ZikZak Filmworks. In 2015 The Silence Of The Sea won the Petrona Award for the year's best Scandinavian crime novel, and The Legacy, the first novel in the Freyja and Huldar series, was nominated for The Glass Key and won the Icelandic Crime Fiction Award. All of her books have been European bestsellers.
Industry Reviews
One of the best books I've read for a long time: dark, creepy, and gripping from beginning to end.

THE RECKONING is another chilling, atmospheric tale from the undisputed Queen of Icelandic Noir. I loved it.

Yrsa Sigurdardottir has with her large-scale and genuinely intelligent stories attempted to find the core of Iceland's distinctive society, and thus pushed the Icelandic crime novel tradition many steps forward.

A dark story by a brilliant author. A densely plotted, multifaceted and compelling book. Exceeds most novels in the thriller genre.

Praise for THE LEGACY - :

Iceland's outstanding crime novelist - Daily Express

If you like your crime fiction dark and engaging, look no further. THE LEGACY is as brutal as it gets. A cracking start to a new series by Yrsa Sigurdardottir. - Mari Hannah, author of the DCI Kate Daniels series

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