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Yrsa Sigurðardóttir.
Subjects
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Women lawyers -- Fiction
College students -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
Reykjavík (Iceland) -- Fiction.
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Yrsa Sigurðardóttir.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Women lawyers -- Fiction
College students -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
Reykjavík (Iceland) -- Fiction.
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Last
rituals
: an
Icelandic
novel
of
secret
symbols
,
medieval
witchcraft
, and
modern
murder
/ Yrsa Sigurdardóttir ; translated from the
Icelandic
by Bernard Scudder.
by
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir.
William Morrow, c2007.
Call #:
FICTION SIG
Subjects
Murder
-- Investigation -- Fiction.
Women lawyers -- Fiction
College students -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
Reykjavík (Iceland) -- Fiction.
Series
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir. Thóra Gudmundsdóttir novels ; 1.
ISBN:
9780061143373
9780061143366
0061143367
Uniform title:
Þriðja táknið. English
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Description:
314 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"This book was originally published in Iceland in 2005 by Verold Publishing."--T.p. verso.
Summary:
"The spellbinding debut and international sensation being published in thirty countries featuring Thóra Gudmundsdóttir, a smart, sexy lawyer and investigator whose hunt for a
modern
murderer points to a very odd—and evil—chapter in Iceland's past After the body of a young German student—with his eyes cut out and strange
symbols
carved into his chest—is discovered at a university in Reykjavík, the police waste no time in making an arrest. The victim's family isn't convinced they have the right man, however, so they ask Thóra Gudmundsdóttir, attorney and single mother of two, to investigate. The fee is considerable—more than enough to make things a bit easier for the struggling lawyer and her children. It's not long before Thóra and Matthew Reich, her new associate, discover something unusual about the deceased student: He had been obsessed with the country's grisly history of torture, execution, and witch hunts—a topic made all the more peculiar by the fact that unlike witch hunts in other countries, those in Iceland had targeted men . . . not women. As Thóra and Matthew dig deeper, they make the connection between long-bygone customs and the student's
murder
. But the shadow of dark traditions conceals secrets in both the past and the present, and the investigators soon realize that nothing is as it seems . . . and that no one can be trusted."--Inside jacket.
Genre:
Icelandic
fiction -- Translations into English.
Mystery fiction.
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1
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FICTION SIG
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Aug 10, 2024
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Adult Mystery Fiction
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Aug 03, 2024
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