Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Author of Last Rituals
About the Author
Yrsa is known for her thrillers featuring lawyer Thora Gudmundsdottir.
Image credit: Yrsa Sigurðardóttir foto by Atli Mar Hafsteinsson
Series
Works by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Mentiras 1 copy
Sort is 1 copy
B10 1 copy
Sé quién eres 1 copy
Los indeseados 1 copy
De tause 1 copy
Sigurðardóttir Yrsa 1 copy
SOG: Huldar & Freyja 2 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Vilborg Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
- Other names
- Yrsa Sigurðardóttir,
Sigurðardóttir, Yrsa,
Vilborg Yrsa Sigurðardóttir,
Vilborg Yrsa Sigurdardottir, - Birthdate
- 1963-08-24
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Iceland
- Birthplace
- Reykjavík, Iceland
- Places of residence
- Seltjarnarnes, Iceland
Canada - Education
- University of Iceland (BSc - Civil Engineering)
Concordia University (MSc - Civil Engineering) - Occupations
- civil engineer
crime novelist
children's book author - Short biography
- Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (born 1963) is an Icelandic writer, of both crime-novels and children's fiction. She has been writing since 1998. Her début crime-novel was translated into English by Bernard Scudder. The central character in the crime novels is Thóra Gudmundsdóttir (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir), a lawyer.
Yrsa is married with two children, and she also has a career as a civil engineer
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- Works
- 53
- Also by
- 3
- Members
- 5,086
- Popularity
- #4,918
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 298
- ISBNs
- 430
- Languages
- 19
- Favorited
- 11
It felt unnecessarily violent at times, which almost made me put the book down.
The main characters, Huldar the police officer and Freyja the child psychologist are not particularly endearing, they weren't fleshed out enough to seem anything more than 2-dimensional, despite various aspects of their lives being drawn out in some rather long and boring passages. They just failed to come to life for me and the reveal at the end seemed pretty weak and rushed, making me think I should have skipped to the end a lot earlier.… (more)