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Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

Author of Last Rituals

53+ Works 5,086 Members 298 Reviews 11 Favorited

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

Last Rituals (2005) 1,087 copies
My Soul to Take (2006) 664 copies
I Remember You (2010) 579 copies
Ashes to Dust (2007) 499 copies
The Legacy (2014) 373 copies
The Day is Dark (2008) 369 copies
The Silence of the Sea (2011) 297 copies
Someone to Watch Over Me (2009) 253 copies
The Reckoning (2015) 233 copies
The Absolution (2016) 180 copies
The Undesired (2015) 177 copies
Why Did You Lie? (2013) 134 copies
Gallows Rock (2017) 84 copies
The Doll (2020) 45 copies
The Fallout (2021) 22 copies
SCHNEE: Thriller (2022) 20 copies
The Prey (2023) 8 copies
Lisboa ReykjavÍk (2020) 6 copies
NACHT: Thriller (2023) 5 copies
Stilte (2022) 4 copies
Sort is (2023) 3 copies
Nukke (2022) 3 copies
De prooi (2022) 2 copies
DNA (2017) 2 copies
La Poupée (2023) 2 copies
Hiljaisuus (2023) 1 copy
Dockan (2023) 1 copy
Mentiras 1 copy
Sort is 1 copy
B10 1 copy
Straffet (2021) 1 copy
Byttedyr (2022) 1 copy
Vesztőhely (2021) 1 copy
FALLOUT (2022) 1 copy
De tause 1 copy
Le Trou (2022) 1 copy

Associated Works

OxCrimes (2014) — Contributor — 75 copies
Making Story: Twenty-One Writers on How They Plot (2012) — Contributor — 11 copies
The Arvon Book of Crime and Thriller Writing (2012) — Contributor — 10 copies

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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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Reviews

Quite a frustrating book in many ways.

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)
 
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Matacabras | 21 other reviews | Nov 9, 2023 |
did not believe I would enjoy this at the beginning, due to all of the characters being awful, but the mystery itself was compelling enough to have me staying up nearly two hours past my bedtime, and I enjoyed it immensely
 
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pigeoncube | 60 other reviews | Oct 29, 2023 |
Run's divorced mother, Lara, fell off her window ledge while smoking. It was ruled a suicide. Run's father Odinn took her in. Odinn worked for a government agency looking into improprieties in children's welfare homes. As he digs deeper, he gets more interested...until a secret ruins it all. Additionally, the ruling on Lara's death has left many questions unanswered.

A quite readable but not outstanding book from the reigning queen of Icelandic noir.
 
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EdGoldberg | 6 other reviews | Sep 10, 2023 |
Well plotted and well written.
 
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Kiramke | 21 other reviews | Jun 27, 2023 |

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Tina Flecken Translator, Übersetzer
Victoria Cribb Translator
Philip Roughton Translator
Bernard Scudder Translator
Tuomas Kauko Translator
Tone Myklebost Translator
Ervin Serrano Cover designer
Tuula Tuuva Translator
Anna Yates Translator
Robert Postma Photographer
Ylva Hellerud Translator

Statistics

Works
53
Also by
3
Members
5,086
Popularity
#4,918
Rating
½ 3.6
Reviews
298
ISBNs
430
Languages
19
Favorited
11

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