by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Book 3, in the Thora Gudmundsdottir seriesI don’t know why I put this author on the back burner for such a long time. I had totally forgotten how wonderfully different Thora Gudmundsdottir, the protagonist is. Thora is a lawyer by profession who has a very unusual clientele and is the type to poke h...
Of all the Nordic crime writers I had experienced, I had an opinion that Jo Nesbo is the mad-dest of them all. And, why shouldn't he be?? With the kind of brutal torture scenes in his books, and the ability to make a very peace-loving reader like me relish those scenes, he certainly deserves his sta...
Rating: 3.5* of fiveThe Book Description: In 1973, a volcanic eruption buried an entire Icelandic village in lava and ash. Now this macabre tourist attraction proves deadly once again—when the discovery of fresh bodies casts a shadow of suspicion onto Markús Magnússon, a man accused of killing his c...
The prologue was intense and really grabbed my attention; then the action just petered out. I felt absolutely no connection to Thora (and thought she overstepped her lawyerly bounds) and Markus was too one dimensional to be interesting. I didn't find [b:Ashes to Dust|12160859|Ashes to Dust|Yrsa Sig...
Thirty years after the volcanic eruption on Heimaey (the only populated island of Iceland's Westman Archipelago) the archeologists excavating the homes that had been buried in ash.....discovered three corpses and a discrete head, in the basement of a house belonging to one Markus Magnusson. Mr Magn...
I won this book through First Reads! Thank you Goodreads!The description intrigued me, as it was described as appealing to fans of Stieg Larsson, and it both takes place in Iceland and is written by an Icelandic author.I didn't find that the story was similar to Larsson's, either in theme or writing...
Oh, I hate that I'm giving Ashes to Dust one star, because I really like Yrsa Sigurðardóttir! I enjoyed her previous two books in the Thora Gudmundsdottir series, and I'll read the next book in the series. That said, I just didn't like anything about Ashes to Dust!For me the most disagreeable thin...
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