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Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

Autor(a) de Last Rituals

53+ Works 5,095 Membros 298 Críticas 11 Favorited

About the Author

Yrsa is known for her thrillers featuring lawyer Thora Gudmundsdottir.
Image credit: Yrsa Sigurðardóttir foto by Atli Mar Hafsteinsson

Séries

Obras por Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

Last Rituals (2005) 1,087 exemplares
My Soul to Take (2006) 665 exemplares
I Remember You (2010) 580 exemplares
Ashes to Dust (2007) 500 exemplares
The Legacy (2014) 373 exemplares
The Day is Dark (2008) 370 exemplares
The Silence of the Sea (2011) 297 exemplares
Someone to Watch Over Me (2009) 254 exemplares
The Reckoning (2015) 233 exemplares
The Absolution (2016) 180 exemplares
The Undesired (2015) 178 exemplares
Why Did You Lie? (2013) 134 exemplares
Gallows Rock (2017) 84 exemplares
The Doll (2020) 45 exemplares
The Fallout (2021) 22 exemplares
SCHNEE: Thriller (2022) 20 exemplares
The Prey (2023) 8 exemplares
Lisboa ReykjavÍk (2020) 7 exemplares
NACHT: Thriller (2023) 5 exemplares
Stilte (2022) 4 exemplares
FALLOUT (2022) 3 exemplares
Sort is (2023) 3 exemplares
Nukke (2022) 3 exemplares
Brúðan (Children's House, #5) (2011) 3 exemplares
La Poupée (2023) 2 exemplares
De prooi (2022) 2 exemplares
DNA (2017) 2 exemplares
B10 1 exemplar
Dockan (2023) 1 exemplar
Sort is 1 exemplar
Hiljaisuus (2023) 1 exemplar
Mentiras 1 exemplar
Sé quién eres 1 exemplar
Straffet (2021) 1 exemplar
Byttedyr (2022) 1 exemplar
Los indeseados 1 exemplar
Vesztőhely (2021) 1 exemplar
De tause 1 exemplar
Le Trou (2022) 1 exemplar
Mentiras (Roja y negra) (2017) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

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

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Vilborg Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Outros nomes
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir,
Sigurðardóttir, Yrsa,
Vilborg Yrsa Sigurðardóttir,
Vilborg Yrsa Sigurdardottir,
Data de nascimento
1963-08-24
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
Iceland
Local de nascimento
Reykjavík, Iceland
Locais de residência
Seltjarnarnes, Iceland
Canada
Educação
University of Iceland (BSc - Civil Engineering)
Concordia University (MSc - Civil Engineering)
Ocupações
civil engineer
crime novelist
children's book author

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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

Membros

Críticas

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.… (mais)
 
Assinalado
Matacabras | 21 outras críticas | 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
 
Assinalado
pigeoncube | 60 outras críticas | 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.
 
Assinalado
EdGoldberg | 6 outras críticas | Sep 10, 2023 |
Well plotted and well written.
 
Assinalado
Kiramke | 21 outras críticas | Jun 27, 2023 |

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Ervin Serrano Cover designer
Tuula Tuuva Translator
Anna Yates Translator
Robert Postma Photographer
Ylva Hellerud Translator

Estatísticas

Obras
53
Also by
3
Membros
5,095
Popularidade
#4,908
Avaliação
½ 3.6
Críticas
298
ISBN
430
Línguas
19
Marcado como favorito
11

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