My Soul to Take: A Novel of Iceland (Thora Gudmundsdottir, 2)

Sigurdardottir, Yrsa

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9781515958390: My Soul to Take: A Novel of Iceland (Thora Gudmundsdottir, 2)

ISBN 10: 1515958396 ISBN 13: 9781515958390

Publisher: Tantor Audio, 2016

In the mystical Snfellsnes region on Iceland's west coast-at a New Age health resort in a renovated farmhouse-the body of a young woman is discovered, savagely beaten, with pins inserted into her feet. Thora Gudmundsdottir, lawyer and single mother of two, has been retained to represent the resort's owner and prime suspect. But a fresh corpse is not the only abomination Thora encounters here-for local legend says this place is haunted, and a bizarre series of inexplicable occurrences soon suggests it is so.

As Thora digs deeply into the farm's past, she unearths a shocking history of evil and depravity, and her once-solid view of reality begins to waver. But a second murder, shockingly similar to the first, pulls Thora back to earth by making two inescapable truths abundantly clear: the killer she seeks is very real . . . and is not finished yet.

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About the Author:

Yrsa Sigurdardottir is an Icelandic writer of crime fiction, including the Thora Gudmundsdottir series. Yrsa has also written for children, and won the 2003 Icelandic Children's Book Prize with Biobrn.

From Booklist:

Thora returns in her second case (following Last Rituals, 2007), this time representing a client convinced that a ghost is haunting his newly acquired property, a resort on the west coast of Iceland. Thora heads out to the coast to consult, looking forward to a weekend without her children. Markedly more cozy and less macabre than the previous book, this one is also slower paced, both in the reading and the investigation. Thora does not believe in the ghost, but when bodies start turning up around the resort, she decides to poke around. The historical elements and leisurely investigation are reminiscent of Indridason’s Erlendur series, but it has a much brighter outlook, and unlike Erlendur, Thora is not a depressed, alcoholic loner—just a slightly stressed single mom and small-time lawyer. Suggest to fans of Asa Larsson’s Rebecca Martinsson series, another Scandinavian lawyer and murder investigator, or Helene Tursten’s Inspector Huss novels, starring a happily married mother of two. --Jessica Moyer

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