All of her books have been European bestsellers.

In 2015 THE SILENCE OF THE SEA won the Petrona Award for the year's best Scandinavian crime novel, and THE LEGACY, the first novel in the Freyja and Huldar series, was nominated for The Glass Key and won the Icelandic Crime Fiction Award. In 2011 her stand-alone horror novel I REMEMBER YOU was awarded the Icelandic Crime Fiction Award and was nominated for The Glass Key, and has been made intoa film starring Johannes Haukur by ZikZak Filmworks. The nightmarish thriller I Remember You (originally published as Ég man þig in 2010) by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir is in fact two stories that both take place in the dead of winter in the remote West Fjords and become intertwined. The second instalment in the Thora Gudmundsdottir series, MY SOUL TO TAKE, was shortlisted for the 2010 Shamus Award. Her work stands 'comparison with the finest contemporary crime writing anywhere in the world' according to the Times Literary Supplement. She made her crime fiction debut in 2005 with LAST RITUALS, the first instalment in the Thora Gudmundsdottir series, and has been translated into more than 30 languages. Peter James The crunching noise had resumed, now accompanied by a disgusting, indefinable smell. Yrsa is one of the most exciting new voices in the crime thriller world. Author of the bestselling Thora Gudmundsdottir crime series and several stand-alone thrillers, Yrsa Sigurdardottir was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1963 and works as a civil engineer. A terrifying ghost story from the Queen of Icelandic crime, Yrsa Sigurdardottir, author of the Thora Gudmundsdottir novels.

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