The Reckoning
- Author Yrsa Sigurdardottir
- Narrator Lucy Paterson
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Run Time 11 hours and 49 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Fiction in translation, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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What to expect
A chilling note predicting the deaths of six people is 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 a real threat...
Detective Huldar suspects he's been given the investigation simply to keep him away from real police work. He turns to psychologist Freyja to help understand the child who hid the message. Soon, however, they find themselves at the heart of another shocking case.
For the discovery of the letter coincides with a string of macabre events: body parts found in a garden, followed by the murder of the man who owned the house. His initials are BT, one of the names on the note.
Huldar and Freyja must race to identify the writer, the victims and the murderer, before the rest of the targets are killed...
(P)2018 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Critics Review
THE RECKONING is another chilling, atmospheric tale from the undisputed Queen of Icelandic Noir. I loved it.
There’s no waffle in The Reckoning: it is brutal, baroque and ends with a brilliant last-minute twist.
One of the best books I’ve read for a long time: dark, creepy, and gripping from beginning to end.
It’s addictive, bleak, and will give you thrills and chills in equal measures.
Yrsa Sigurdardóttir has with her large-scale and genuinely intelligent stories attempted to find the core of Iceland’s distinctive society, and thus pushed the Icelandic crime novel tradition many steps forward.
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir’s incredible gift of mixing the macabre and the poignant, together with the astute observations of the ordinary life, sprinkled with a dark sense of humour, keeps on giving in buckets. Her imagination knows no bounds, turning the most ordinary objects into deadly weapons… The nuanced writing encompasses the thriller’s overwhelming sense of doom as it explores the failings of the society to protect victims.
A dark story by a brilliant author. A densely plotted, multifaceted and compelling book. Exceeds most novels in the thriller genre.
Praise for THE LEGACY
Iceland’s outstanding crime novelist
Yrsa remains the queen of Icelandic thriller writers.
If you like your crime fiction dark and engaging, look no further. THE LEGACY is as brutal as it gets. A cracking start to a new series by Yrsa Sigurdardottir.
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