Syndafall

Syndafall A Fall From Grace

Tinna is a young artist who lost her hearing as a child after contracting meningitis. Twenty years later, she decides to get a cochlear implant, only to start hearing things that aren’t really there.

Steinn is an author whose career began with a bang but has since gone silent. When his banker wife suffers a severe burnout, he’s forced to shake off his writer’s block and get back to work. Searching for inspiration, he takes his family to an Airbnb in remote northern Iceland, where an odd relative lives. An impulsive decision he soon comes to regret.

Lena is a single mother raising a teenage daughter. As a teenager herself, she was raped. One night, while picking up her daughter from her first high school party, Lena encounters her rapist and, in an attempt to seek justice, she hits him with her car, leaving him to die in the street.

Although these three strangers have never met, they are hurtling toward one another on a fateful collision course that will change their lives forever.

Reviews

  • “It’s no wonder that Yrsa Sigurðardóttir has been called the queen of Icelandic crime novels, because she is brilliantly smart and here she is at her very best. This book is thrilling and entertaining.”

    Lifðu núna, Iceland

  • A Fall from Grace is a tightly crafted thriller that dives deep into the haunting aftermath of trauma and the corrosive weight of guilt. ”

    ★★★★

    Morgunblaðið, Iceland

Author
Photo: Sigga Ella Yrsa Sigurdardóttir
Published
2025
Genre
  • Thriller
Pages
277
Reading material

Icelandic edition

Rights sold

Czech Republic, Grada

Denmark, Lindhardt og Ringhof

Finland, Otava

Germany, Btb

Greece, Metaixmio

Iceland, Veröld

Norway, Bonnier Norsk

Poland, Sonia Draga

Romania, Editura Trei

Slovakia, Grada

The Netherlands, Bezige Bij

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