Why Did You Lie? (44 page)

Authors: Yrsa Sigurdardottir,Katherine Manners,Hodder,Stoughton

Tags: #Suspense, #Thriller & Suspense, #Crime, #Mystery, #Thrillers & Suspense

‘Disturbing and compelling’
Daily Mail

Aldis took a job in a juvenile detention centre in rural Iceland because she would have done anything to get away from home. She soon realises it was a terrible decision. The boys are unruly, the owners are unpleasant, and there are strange noises at night. And then two of the inmates die …

Decades later, single father Odinn is looking into alleged abuse at the centre. 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 sinister?

LAST RITUALS

(Thora Gudmundsdottir Book 1)

‘Yrsa is one of the most exciting new voices in the crime thriller world’ Peter James

A young man is found brutally murdered, his eyes gouged out. A student of Icelandic history in Reykjavík, he came from a wealthy German family who do not share the police’s belief that his drug dealer murdered him.

Attorney Thora Gudmundsdottir is commissioned by his mother to find out the truth, with the help – and hindrance – of boorish ex-policeman Matthew Reich. Their investigations into his research take them deep into a grisly world of torture and witchcraft both past and present, as they draw ever closer to a killer gripped by a dangerous obsession …