Yrsa Sigurdardóttir is the second most sold crime writer of 2025 in Iceland, placing at No. 2 with A Fall From Grace, a stand-alone thriller.

Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s stand-alone thriller, A Fall From Grace, is once again No. 1 on the Icelandic crime list.

Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s latest stand-alone thriller, A Fall From Grace, claims the No. 1 spot on the crime list this week.

Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s latest stand-alone thriller, A Fall From Grace, debuts at No. 1 on Iceland’s official hardcover bestseller list.

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.

A Fall From Grace is Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s new stand-alone thriller.

The first installment in Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s bestselling Freyja & Huldar series, The Legacy, has been shortlisted for the Valencia Negra Awards in the Best Novel category.

The VLC Negra festival is a Spanish international cultural event that gathers a variety of creators, including writers, actors, musicians, and photographers. Each year, the top novels from the festival’s previous edition are chosen, and the public votes to decide the winner, which will be announced during the festival, on May 9.

Forget Me Not, the second installment in the bestselling Black Ice series, is No. 1 on Storytel, after its release in Finland just last month.

The voting is now open for this year’s Finnish Storytel Awards.

Among the nominated in the category Crime & Suspense are Anders de la Motte with The Mountain King, Yrsa Sigurdardóttir with Can’t Run, Can’t Hide, Jo Nesbø with Blood Ties, and Lars Kepler with The Sleepwalker. 

Moa Herngren’s The Divorce is nominated in the Fiction category.

The winners will be announced at the Storytel Awards gala on March 13, 2025.

Close Your Eyes, the fourth installment in Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s bestselling Black Ice series, released in late November, has secured the No. 2 spot among the most sold fiction titles in Iceland for 2024.

Nine years ago, a family expecting their second child made the fateful decision to let their nine-year-old daughter spend the night in a garden shed. The little girl was never to be seen again. When her clothing is discovered during a police raid, the cold case of her disappearance is thrust back into the spotlight. Týr, Karó, and Iðunn must dive deep to uncover the truth of what happened that fateful night.

Meanwhile, a newly divorced woman renting the apartment once occupied by the ill-fated family becomes dangerously captivated by the case, leading to dire consequences.

Close Your Eyes, the gripping final installment in the Black Ice series, also delivers long-awaited answers about the murder of Týr’s mother, a mystery that has haunted him since he was a child.

The jury for the 2024 Petrona Award has just revealed the shortlist for the ‘Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year.’ Among the six nominees are Jørn Lier Horst with Snow Fall, and Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s The Prey. 

The Judges have the following to say about each title:

“A slow methodological approach gathers pace and pulls readers into a complex web of low-key international ties. As always Lier Horst delves deep into the psychology and motives of the characters, creating a slow-burning police procedural of empathy and human interest, firmly rooted in Norwegian society.”

“Sigurðardottir balances these three storylines, each with her trademark creeping sense of unease, in this dark and disturbing standalone.”

The winning title will be announced on 14 November 2024.