86 Ergebnisse - Zeige 41 von 60.

Yrsa is a magnificent writer' Karin Slaughter A chilling note written by a thirteen-year-old predicting the deaths of six people is found in a time capsule, ten years after it was buried. Can it be a real threat?Detective Huldar turns to psychologist Freyja to help understand the child who hid the message. But the discovery of the letter coincides with a string of murders. All of the victims match the initials from the note. Huldar and Freyja ...

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Aldis hates her job working in a juvenile detention center in rural Iceland. The boys are difficult, the owners are unpleasant, and there are mysterious noises at night. And then two of the boys go astray . . .Decades later, single father Odinn is looking into alleged abuse at the center. The more he finds out, though, the more it seems the odd events of the 1970s are linked to the accident that killed his ex-wife. Was her death something more...

Er schlägt erbarmungslos zu. Wie aus dem Nichts. Zuerst trifft es eine junge Familienmutter nachts in ihrer Wohnung in Reykjavik. Einzige Zeugin ist ihre siebenjährige Tochter, die wider Erwarten den Angriff übersteht. Als wenig später eine zweite Frau unter ähnlich brutalen Vorzeichen ihr Leben verliert, steht die Polizei vor einem Rätsel. Kommissar Huldar, der die Ermittlungen leitet und sich erstmals in einem so wichtigen Fall beweisen muss...

Zwölf Jahre nach dem Tod und der Vergewaltigung eines Mädchens wird eine Zeitkapsel in Reykjavik gehoben. Darin enthalten: 10 Jahre alte Briefe von Schülern, die beschreiben, wie sie sich Island im Jahre 2016 vorstellen. Darunter findet sich noch etwas anderes: eine unheimliche Botschaft, die akribisch genau die Initialen von zukünftigen Mordopfern auflistet. Kurz danach werden zwei abgetrennte Hände in einem Hot Tub in der Stadt treibend gefu...

Yrsa Sigurdardottir, winner of the 2015 Petrona Award for best Scandinavian Crime Novel, delivers another tour de force in her second novel in the Freyja and Huldar series.In 2016 the following people are going to die: K, S, BT, JJ, OV and I. Nobody will miss them. Least of all me. I can't wait. This is the chilling message found in a school's time capsule, ten years after it was buried. But surely, if a thirteen-year-old wrote it, it can't be...

22 gennaio 1973, sudovest dell'Islanda, isola di Heimaey. Un'inaspettata eruzione vulcanica investe un villaggio di pescatori. La popolazione viene evacuata in tempo, ma gran parte delle case finisce sepolta sotto strati di lava e cenere. 9 luglio 2007. Un progetto archeologico si propone di riportare alla luce alcune delle abitazioni. Markús - un ragazzo all'epoca della tragedia - insiste per essere il primo a entrare nel seminterrato della c...

From the internationally bestselling and prizewinning author, comes the first title in a thrilling new crime series which was awarded the Icelandic Crime Fiction Award in 2015.

Keine Beschreibung.

A luxury yacht arrives in Reykjavik harbour with nobody on board. What has happened to the crew, and to the family who were on board when it left Lisbon? Thora Gudmundsdottir is hired by the young father's parents to investigate, and is soon drawn deeper into the mystery.

A creepy, compelling thriller, SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME is the fifth Thóra Gudmundsdóttir novel from Yrsa, 'Iceland's answer to Stieg Larsson' (Daily Telegraph). A young man with Down's Syndrome has been convicted of burning down his care home and killing five people, but a fellow inmate at his secure psychiatric unit has hired Thóra to prove Jakob is innocent. If he didn't do it, who did? And how is the multiple murder connected to the death ...

Sie ist Ingenieurin. Sie ist Schriftstellerin. Sie ist Isländerin. Yrsa Sigurdardóttir ist Islands Nummer1 - Bestsellerautorin. Plötzlich fiel ihm wieder ein, wie der Traum endete. Sie waren ursprünglich vier Reisende gewesen. Aber nur zwei kehrten an Land zurück. Nur dumm, dass er sich nicht erinnern konnte, ob er selbst einer von ihnen gewesen war. Die Leuchtturminsel war ein winziger Punkt in den eiskalten und aufgewühlten Wellen des Atla...

I Remember You won the Icelandic Crime Fiction Award and also was nominated for The Glass Key Award.In this terrifying tale, three friends set to work renovating a rundown house in a remote, totally isolated location. But they soon realize they are not as alone as they thought. Something wants them to leave. Meanwhile, in a nearby town, a young doctor investigating the suicide of an elderly woman discovers that she was obsessed with his vanish...

A terrifying ghost story from the Icelandic author, partly based on a true story. From the author of "Last Rituals, My Soul To Take" and "Ashes To Dust". 3 friends set to work renovating a derelict house in an isolated village, but they soon realise they are not alone and something wants them to leave. 'Things get seriously scary.' "Marie Claire

Chilling Icelandic crime from the author of LAST RITUALS, MY SOUL TO TAKE and ASHES TO DUST.

The light spilling in from the corridor would have to do. Though weak, it was sufficient to show Aldís a boy sitting in the gloom at the furthest table. He had his back to her, so she couldn't see who it was, but could tell that he was one of the youngest. A chill ran down her spine when he spoke again, without turning, as if he had eyes in the back of his head. 'Go away. Leave me alone.' 'Come on. You shouldn't be here.' Aldís spoke gently, f...

Die neue große isländische KrimiserieEr schlägt erbarmungslos zu. Wie aus dem Nichts. Zuerst trifft es eine junge Familienmutter nachts in ihrer Wohnung in Reykjavik. Einzige Zeugin ist ihre siebenjährige Tochter, die wider Erwarten den Angriff übersteht. Als wenig später eine zweite Frau unter ähnlich brutalen Vorzeichen ihr Leben verliert, steht die Polizei vor einem Rätsel. Kommissar Huldar, der die Ermittlungen leitet und sich erstmals in ...

Sommer 2006, im Westen von Island. Auf der Halbinsel Snæfellsnes wird die Architektin eines Wellness-Hotels tot am Strand gefunden. Sie wurde vergewaltigt und brutal erschlagen, in ihren Fußsohlen stecken Nadeln. Rechtsanwältin Dóra Gudmundsdóttir findet heraus, dass die Ermordete sich sehr für die Geschichte der verlassenen Gegend interessiert hat. Vor vielen Jahrzehnten standen auf dem Hotelgrundstück die Höfe zweier Brüder. Offenbar ist sie...