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Yrsa Sigurdardottir is the author of five
children's books, works as a civil engineer and has finished her
third mystery novel featuring feisty lawyer and single parent,
Thora Gudmundsdottir. Her mysteries have been translated into
fourteen languages, which greatly expands her readership since
she writes in Icelandic, a language spoken primarily by the
350,000 residents of Iceland.
Sigurdardottir began her mystery-writing career with her 2005
debut, "Last Rituals," where she introduces Thora Gudmundsdottir,
attorney and single mother. Thora is called in to investigate
the unusual death of a German graduate student at a university
in Reykjavik. As her investigation proceeds, Thora discovers a
secret world of money, sex, drugs and a dark secret reaching
back a thousand years into Iceland's pagan past.
In Thora Gudmundsdottir, Sigurdardottir has created an
intriguing, no-nonsense protagonist, who combines a witty sense
of humor with a modern day family of a young daughter,
with-drawn teen son and a not very involved ex-husband.
"Last Rituals" is currently available in a hard-cover English
translation. The paperback edition is available after April 2009.
The second book in the series, "My Soul to Take," was
released in English in April 2009.
Yrsa Sigurdardottir spoke in Blaine at 7:30 pm on November 19,
2008 at Free Church Unitarian, 1218 Harrison Avenue. |
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