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The Reckoning

A Completely Chilling Thriller, from the Queen of Icelandic Noir

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The Reckoning

By: Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Victoria Cribb - translation
Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
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About this listen

Yrsa Sigurdardottir, winner of the 2015 Petrona Award for best Scandinavian Crime Novel, delivers another tour de force in her second novel in the Freyja and Huldar series.

A chilling note predicting the deaths of six people is found in a school's time capsule, 10 years after it was buried. But surely, if a 13-year-old wrote it, it can't be a real threat....

Detective Huldar suspects he's been given the investigation simply to keep him away from real police work. He turns to psychologist Freyja to help understand the child who hid the message. Soon, however, they find themselves at the heart of another shocking case.

For the discovery of the letter coincides with a string of macabre events: body parts found in a garden, followed by the murder of the man who owned the house. His initials are BT, one of the names on the note.

Huldar and Freyja must race to identify the writer, the victims and the murderer before the rest of the targets are killed....

©2018 Yrsa Sigurdardottir (P)2018 Hodder & Stoughton Limited Crime Crime Thrillers International Mystery & Crime Mystery Psychological Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Fiction Murder

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Quite grisly in its murderous content. Not for the faint hearted but a good listen with lots of twists even at the end. Lots of characters but well drawn together.

Quite shocking but a good listen

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Enjoyed this one more than the first in the series. Fast pace and grabbed my interest all the time. I found the narrator very good and really bought the story to life. Looking forward to the next in the series.

Thoroughly enjoyable

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Love both Hulda/Freya books and hope there are more in this series. There are serious issues in plot but relationship between main characters lightens things.

Very good read

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Loved it as much as all the other books I've read by Yrsa!
Can't recommend it enough x

Love Yrsa!

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but hard for some victims of child abuse i should imagine. I loved the theme of reckoning. Appropriate because alot of plot is about the account firm staff.

i wish in this country we could adopt more of the attitudes our heros had, and shame anyone with peadofile tendancies. I wish we could go further , like the villains survivors , and Shame People who have inflicted abuse, instead of the ' don't speak ill of the dead' attitude we have. Yes, like the storyline , don't give them a properfuneral while they leave live scott free>ues, peadoviles really think they are a justified alternative, that they have the right to abuse their children, that their children won't remember, and won't dare , expose them, so they can maintain their narcisistic attidude , Maybe shaming them in the way Jimmy Saville and others did will prevent some harm. For a start, remind people that death doesn't finish criminal procedings in Uk, and we certainly donn't have a ten year, everything on the scriminal slate is wiped cleann, as the author seems to say happens in iceland.
i wish more people knew that families hurt by peodiviles can sue the estate of the diseased culperpable like victims of Saville did. So once our nation starts to sue them, they will know we people have an incentive to shame them. Also people in their circles who knew what they were up to won't let the abuse continure.
i wish we had more ways of shaming them openly, and wish the author lots of success in any similar novels she composes.

excellent, hard hitting, necessary listening

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