The Legacy
A Dark and Engaging Thriller Which is Impossible to Put Down
$26.30
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
30 January 2018
Summary
The first in an exciting new series from ‘Iceland’s outstanding crime novelist’ (Daily Express) Yrsa Sigurdardottir, winner of the 2015 Petrona Award for best Scandinavian Crime Novel.
The murder was meant as a punishment - but what sin could justify the method?
The only person who might have answers is the victim’s seven-year-old daughter, found hiding in the room where her mother died. And she’s not talking.
Newly promoted, out of his depth, detective Huldar turns to…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473621558 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473621550 |
| Author: | Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Victoria Cribb |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 30 January 2018 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 32mm |
| Series: | Freyja and Huldar |
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Iceland’s outstanding crime novelist - Daily Express
The Legacy is the start of an exciting new direction for Yrsa Sigurdardottir. The horror of a decades-old family separation provides the catalyst for dark crimes and a complex investigation. The Children’s House promises to be an outstanding series.The Icelandic queen of Nordic Noir, Yrsa Sigurdardottir’s writing manages to be both spare but sinister. Expect goosebumps to sprout while reading this tale of murder, abuse and other worldly shenanigans in rural Iceland. - Red Magazine on THE UNDESIREDAbout The Author
Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Yrsa Sigurdardottir, born in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1963, is the author of the bestselling Thora Gudmundsdottir crime series and several stand-alone thrillers. Working 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.
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