The Day Is Dark: A Thriller (Thora Gudmundsdottir)

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Theres something out there "Icelands answer to Stieg Larsson." --Daily Telegraph "Icelands crime queen." --The Scotsman "Engaging fresh and exciting." --James Patterson Yrsa Sigurdardttir is widely regarded around the world as one of the best Nordic crime writers working today. Yrsas previous book in the series Ashes to Dust also featured lawyer and sometime sleuth Thra Gudmundsdttir and received rave reviews internationally. In The Day is Dark when all contact is lost with two Icelanders working in a harsh and sparsely populated area on the coast of Greenland Thra is hired to uncover the fates of the missing people. When she arrives in Greenland she discovers that these arent the first two to go missing. The local townspeople believe that the area is cursed and no one wants to get involved in the case. Soon Thora finds herself stranded in the middle of a wilderness and the case is as frightening and hostile as the landscape itself. Chilling unsettling and compulsively readable The Day is Dark is a must read for readers who are looking for the next big thing in crime fiction coming in from the cold.