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Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

Autor(a) de Last Rituals

53+ Works 5,095 Membros 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

Séries

Obras de Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

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

Associated Works

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

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome de batismo
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)
Ocupação
civil engineer
crime novelist
children's book author
Pequena biografia
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

Resenhas

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)
 
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Matacabras | outras 21 resenhas | 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 | outras 60 resenhas | 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 | outras 6 resenhas | Sep 10, 2023 |
Well plotted and well written.
 
Marcado
Kiramke | outras 21 resenhas | Jun 27, 2023 |

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Tuomas Kauko Translator
Tone Myklebost Translator
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
Resenhas
298
ISBNs
430
Idiomas
19
Favorito
11

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