To help celebrate Bouchercon 2016, we teamed up with our pals over at Minotaur Books to help sponsor a collaborative short story penned by a huge collection of their fabulous authors. After nearly 3o authors and an impromptu roast of some of the Minotaur team members, the results were fantastic. But there's one problem: we didn't have a…
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The Silence of the Sea by Yrsa Sigurdardottir is an Icelandic thriller and the 6th book in the Thora Gudmundsdottir series that features a mysterious luxury yacht that crashes into the pier completely empty leaving Thora to investigate this “cursed” ship (Available February 16, 2016). A luxury yacht crashes into a Reykjavik pier. But the…
Someone to Watch Over Me by Yrsa Sigurdardóttir is the 5th legal thriller set in Iceland featuring attorney Thóra Gudmundsdóttir (available February 17, 2015). That chill you just got? It had nothing to do with the draft that always sneaks through the bedroom window when the temperature drops below freezing and the wind kicks up…
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2014 promises to be chock full of wonderful mystery conventions and conferences ranging from Bouchercon— the world’s largest crime fiction convention—to more tightly-focused conferences like Malice Domestic, which specializes in traditional and cozy mysteries. Thrillerfest is, of course, primarily about thrillers, and Left Coast Crime is regional, but also offers the year's only humorous mystery…
The Day is Dark by Yrsa Sigurdardóttir is the fourth mystery featuring attorney Thóra Gudmundsdóttir (available February 26, 2013). At an author event in the spring of 2012, Yrsa Sigurdardóttir was talking about the power of place for an author working on a mystery novel. The place in question was Greenland, which she had visited…
If you’re as captivated by Icelandic crime fiction as we are you’ll want to know about the guided “Reykjavík Criminally” walks run by the Reykjavík City Library every Thursday in July and August. (It’s never too early to start planning your next vacation. Summer will be here before you know it!) Developed in 2011, when…
If you like the dark, Nordic-sensibility works of Yrsa Sigurdardóttir and Elizabeth Hand and you live in or around New York City, we have an event you won’t want to miss: The two authors will be chatting at Scandinavia House in New York on Tuesday, March 27 at 6:30pm. The event is free, but seating…
Ashes to Dust by Yrsa Sigurdardóttir is the third book in the Thóra Gudmundsdóttir thriller series (available March 27, 2012). In January 1973, the Eldfell volcano on the Icelandic island of Heimaey erupted, forcing the evacuation of 5,300 residents. It took just six hours to transport everyone except essential emergency workers to the mainland, and…
