Reviews

• “This story’s mystery is flawless and its eeriness unshakable.”

• “Sigurdardottir has created a clever, seaborne locked-room puzzle with a touch of the supernatural. She also deftly evokes the lovely but treacherous land- and seascapes of the North Atlantic.”

• “[In] Sigurdardóttir’s outstanding sixth Thóra Gudmundsdóttir thriller… Sigurdardóttir does a masterly job of weaving together the story of Thóra’s painstaking investigation with an account of the voyage and its horrifying spiral into disaster. In effect a locked-boat mystery enhanced with a hint of ghosts, this deliciously eerie variation on Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians won the Petrona Award for best Scandinavian crime novel in 2015. ”

• “A tour de force capped by a haunting final scene that will linger in your mind long after the cumbersome explanation of how the trick was worked.”

• “…gripping and claustrophobic /…/ ends with one of the most dramatic twists in recent crime fiction.”

• “The writing is excellent, the investigation scrupulous and the outcome miserable.”

• “The author creates in flashback a Christe-esque puzzle as life on the yacht becomes tense, then increasingly scary. /…/ An artfully constructed, highly entertaining read, more Golden Age than Nordic Noir… until the very last page.”

• “This well-crafted novel will keep you gripped until its chilling end”

• “Chilling, spooky and at times gruesome, Sigurdardóttir's books (she also writes the occasional horror tome) are compulsive page-turners and prove fascinating eye-openers into the complexities of Icelandic life and its bleak exoticism.”

• “This Week’s Hot Read! /…/ A thrilling whodunnit”

• “The uncertainty about what really happened engages the reader to the end in nerve-wrecking suspense. Definitely one to read!”

• “Nordic Noir at its chilling best”

• “The latest hot shot /…/ You can almost feel the damp swirling fog rising from the pages…”

• “…an immensely captivating thriller of the sort that you simply cannot put down.”

• “Ice cold horror, people in an isolated environment and a dense, claustrophobic atmosphere. … A solid crime novel.”

• “A sure winner.”

• “A first class thriller … Very suspenseful and blood-stained horror with a mysterious drama.”

• “Really good; dark, ice cold. Just like the ocean.”