Bráðin
The Prey
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Yrsa Sigurdardóttir (b. 1963) is an award-winning, No. 1 best-selling Icelandic crime fiction author. Sigurdardóttir made her crime fiction debut in 2005 with Last Rituals, the first installment in the Thóra Gudmundsdóttir series. She has since gone on to write a number of acclaimed stand-alone thriller novels, and is to date translated into more than 30 languages. With The Legacy, the first novel in the award-winning series about child psychologist Freyja and police detective Huldar, Yrsa Sigurdardóttir has consolidated her position as one of the finest crime writers of our time, and a master storyteller at the top of her game.
“Yrsa is a magnificent writer”
-Karin Slaughter
“I can see why so many people are enthusiastic about Yrsa’s work. It’s very engaging, fresh and exciting.”
–James Patterson
“Yrsa is one of the most exciting new voices in the crime thriller world.”
–Peter James
“Yrsa Sigurdardóttir has with her large-scale and genuinely intelligent stories attempted to find the core of Iceland’s distinctive society, and thus pushed the Icelandic crime novel tradition many steps forward.”
–Arne Dahl
“The undisputed queen of Icelandic Noir”
–Simon Kernick
“I love the Children’s House series.”
–Shari Lapena
“Yrsa is a wonderful storyteller. Her stories are atmospheric, mysterious and brilliantly plotted … you will never see the twists coming.”
–Mari Hannah
Shortlisted for Storytel Awards Iceland – Gættu þinna handa Forget Me Not | 2024 |
The Blood Drop (Best Crime Fiction) Iceland – Bráðin The Prey | 2021 |
Shortlisted for the Petrona Award (Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year) UK – Aflausn The Absolution | 2020 |
Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award Ireland – Lygi Why Did You Lie | 2018 |
Shortlisted for LovelyBooks’ Der Leserpreis (Best Crime & Thriller of 2017) Germany – Sogid The Reckoning | 2017 |
Shortlisted for the Petrona Award (Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year) UK – Lygi Why Did You Lie | 2017 |
Shortlisted for The Blood Drop (Best Icelandic Crime Novel of the Year) Iceland – Aflausn The Absolution | 2017 |
Shortlisted for LovelyBooks’ Der Leserpreis (Best Crime & Thriller of 2016) Germany – DNA The Legacy | 2016 |
Shortlisted for the Mörda Award (Captivating Crime in Translation) UK – Kuldi The Undesired | 2016 |
Shortlisted for The Blood Drop (Best Icelandic Crime Novel of the Year) Iceland – Sogid The Reckoning | 2016 |
The Danish Academy of Crime Writers’ Award (Best Crime Novel of the Year) Denmark – DNA The Legacy | 2016 |
The Blood Drop (Best Icelandic Crime Novel of the Year) Iceland – DNA The Legacy | 2015 |
The Petrona Award (Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year) UK – Brakid The Silence of the Sea | 2015 |
Shortlisted for the Petrona Award (Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year) UK – Horfdu a mig Someone to Watch over Me | 2014 |
Shortlisted for the Glass Key The Nordic Countries – DNA The Legacy | 2014 |
Shortlisted for the Glass Key The Nordic Countries – Eg man thig I Remember You | 2011 |
The Blood Drop (Best Icelandic Crime Novel of the Year) Iceland – Eg man thig I Remember You | 2010 |
Shortlisted for the Shamus Award US – Ser grefur gröf My Soul to Take | 2010 |
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The Petrona Award’s jury has just presented its longlist for the 2024 Petrona Award for ‘Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year.’
Among the 10 nominees are Jørn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger with Stigma, Jørn Lier Horst with Snowfall, and Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s The Prey.
The shortlist will be announced on 10 October 2024.
Forget Me Not, the second installment in Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s thrilling Black Ice series, debuts at No. 3 on Der Spiegel’s bestseller list for trade paperback fiction.
The shortlist for the 2024 CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger, an award given to the best translated crime novel of the year published in the UK, has been announced. Among the six remaining nominees vying for the prestigious award is Yrsa Sigurdardóttir, with the thrilling novel The Prey.
The winners will be announced on 4 July at the CWA Awards Night.
Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s bestselling thriller The Prey is longlisted for the prestigious 2024 CWA Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation, an award that’s given to the best translated crime novel of the year published in the UK.
The shortlist will be announced on May 10 at Crimefest.
The nominees for this year’s Icelandic Storytel Awards have been announced.
The Storytel Awards are an annual event that highlights the best audio books of the year. The awards are granted within five categories: Suspense, Fiction, Non-fiction, YA & Children’s books, and Feelgood.
Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s Forget Me Not is nominated in the Suspense category, whilst Jørn Lier Horst’s The Cabin is featured in the Fiction books award.
Martin Widmark’s The Racecourse Mystery is in the running for the Children’s books award, and Just a Bit More by Simona Ahrnstedt is nominated within the Feelgood category.
Readers will be able to vote for their favorite titles, after which a jury will pick a winner among the five candidates with the most votes in each category.
The Surge, Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s third novel in the Black Ice series, stays firmly put at No. 2 also on the December bestseller list for all genres. Jo Nesbø’s Killing Moon meanwhile climbs to the top of the translated fiction list.
The Surge, Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s third novel in the Black Ice series, shoots to No. 2 on the Icelandic bestseller list in all categories in November.
Jo Nesbø’s Killing Moon and Yrsa Sigurdardottir’s The Prey have been chosen by The Sunday Times as two of the best crime novels of 2023. The newspaper calls Killing Moon “not just an unbearably tense thriller, but another of Jo Nesbo’s piercing studies in love and loneliness.” The Prey is described as “mesmerising and atmospheric, with entrancing descriptions of landscape.”
A skeleton, which appears to have been buried in the ground for many years, is found and exhumed at a recycling center in Reykjavík. Police officers Týr and Karó are not assigned to the case but are asked to assist in a neighbor dispute that has entered hellish territory. Before long, they find themselves involved in a murder case after the conflict takes a deadly turn.
Meanwhile, Gunndís, a young female cook, takes a temporary job onboard a large fishing ship, following in her late father’s footsteps. When she finds a book that belonged to him that should be at the bottom of the sea, she begins to fear that someone on board has it in for her.
Although Týr and Karó do not realize it to begin with, the events are all linked through a horrible accident, many years ago, when a trawler caught on fire and sank to the depths of the ocean with the crew trapped inside.
The Surge is the third installment in Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s thrilling Black Ice series.
The nominees for this year’s Icelandic Storytel Awards have been announced. The Storytel Awards have been bestowed to highlight the best audio books of the year. The awards are granted within six categories: Suspense, Fiction, Non-fiction, Feelgood, YA, and Children’s books.
Among the nominees for suspense are Johan Theorin’s Weathered Bones and Yrsa Sigurdardottir’s I See You.
We’re Just Trying to Have Fun by Hálldor Armand Asgeirsson is featured within the non-fiction category.
Simona Ahrnstedt’s High Risk is nominated in the feelgood category, whilst Martin Widmark’s The Saffron Mystery is in the running for the children’s books award.
Readers will be able to vote for their favorite works, after which a jury will pick a winner among the three candidates with the most votes in each category.
Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s blood-curling and unnerving novel The Prey sails to No. 6 on Der Spiegel’s list for trade paperback this week. This marks the sixteenth consecutive week for the novel.