Táto séria sleduje osudy islandské právničky, ktorá sa ponára do temných tajomstiev a zložitých prípadov. Každý diel odhaľuje nové výzvy, kde sa stretáva s ľudskou povahou a spravodlivosťou. Príbehy sú zasadené do drsnej a pôsobivej islandsej krajiny, ktorá dodáva napätie a atmosféru. Čitatelia sa môžu tešiť na pútavé právne drámy s prvkami detektívky.
Mladý muž nemeckej národnosti príde na Island zapísať sa na katedru histórie. Jeho zjav je extravagantný, ale rozruch spôsobí najmä jeho mŕtvola, ktorá vypadne z dverí na jedného z profesorov, ktorý ide okolo. A aby toho nebolo málo, ešte je aj odporne zohavená. Z vraždy je vzápätí obvinený jeden známy zavraždeného, príležitostný distribútor drog, ale bohatá rodina zavraždeného v jeho vinu neverí. Preto vyšle na Island bývalého kriminalistu a najme islandskou právničku Tóru, aby vypátrali pravdu. Ukáže sa, že zavraždený založil spolok praktizujúci mágiu, a vášnivo študoval islandské čarodejnícke procesy. Postupne vychádzajú najavo ďalšie podivné stránky zavraždeného osobnosti, ako aj jeho neutešené rodinné zázemie.
Na veci medzi nebom a zemou veria ľudia na Islande oveľa viac než v iných západných krajinách. Okrem toho majú dlhú rozprávačskú tradíciu - v ich ľudových rozprávkach je niekoľko naozaj dobrých okultistických príbehov. Ale moderný kriminálny román musí mať, prirodzene, celkom pozemské rozuzlenie a tak právnička Dóra cestuje na sever karjiny, kde našli mŕtvolu ženy s napichanými špendlíkmi v pätách. Čo to znamená?
When all contact is lost with two Icelanders working in a harsh and sparsely populated area on the northeast coast of Greenland, Thora is hired to investigate. Is there any connection with the disappearance of a woman from the site some months earlier? And why are the locals so hostile?
An abandoned yacht, a young family missing - chilling crime from the queen of
Nordic Noir. WINNER OF THE 2015 PETRONA AWARD The most chilling novel yet from
Yrsa Sigurdardottir, an international bestseller at the height of her powers.
'Mummy dead.' The child's pure treble was uncomfortably clear. It was the last
thing Brynjar - and doubtless the others - wanted to hear at that moment.
'Daddy dead.' It got worse. 'Adda dead. Bygga dead.' The child sighed and
clutched her grandmother's leg. 'All dead.' A luxury yacht arrives in
Reykjavik harbour with nobody on board. What has happened to the crew, and to
the family who were on board when it left Lisbon? Thora Gudmundsdottir is
hired by the young father's parents to investigate, and is soon drawn deeper
into the mystery. What should she make of the rumours saying that the vessel
was cursed, especially given that when she boards the yacht she thinks she
sees one of the missing twins? Where is Karitas, the glamorous young wife of
the yacht's former owner? And whose is the body that has washed up further
along the shore? The most chilling novel yet from Yrsa Sigurdardottír, an
international bestseller at the height of her powers. 'Mummy dead.' The
child's pure treble was uncomfortably clear. It was the last thing Brynjar -
and doubtless the others - wanted to hear at that moment. 'Daddy dead.' It got
worse. 'Adda dead. Bygga dead.' The child sighed and clutched her
grandmother's leg. 'All dead.' A luxury yacht arrives in Reykjavik harbour
with nobody on board. What has happened to the crew, and to the family who
were on board when it left Lisbon? Thóra Gudmundsdóttir is hired by the young
father's parents to investigate, and is soon drawn deeper into the mystery.
What should she make of the rumours saying that the vessel was cursed,
especially given that when she boards the yacht she thinks she sees one of the
missing twins? Where is Karítas, the glamorous young wife of the yacht's
former owner? And whose is the body that has washed up further along the
shore? 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. The second instalment 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. Her novel
THE SILENCE OF THE SEA won the Petrona Award in 2015.
