Reviews

• “Sigurdardóttir just keeps getting better and better. ”

• “Sigurdardóttir offsets sharp procedural elements and gruesome crimes with masterful character development and social commentary, creating a riveting, affecting thriller.”

• “Sigurdardóttir handles myriad plot threads, time lines, and characters with confidence, energy, and just a touch of cynical humor in this police procedural.”

• “The Reckoning is dark, grave and graphic — but also gripping and compassionate.”

• “Chilling page- turner.”

• “It has everything you want in a police procedural: strong, memorable characters, a puzzling mystery and bizarre murders, all served up perfectly … The Reckoning makes for addicting reading.”

• “Sigurdardottir’s The Reckoning is guaranteed to give you goosebumps. In a story both gruesome and heart-wrenching, Sigurdardottir weaves a masterful mystery that belongs on the bookshelf of every Scandinavian crime fiction reader.”

• “Yrsa Sigurðardóttir’s incredible gift of mixing the macabre and the poignant, together with the astute observations of the ordinary life, sprinkled with a dark sense of humour, keeps on giving in buckets.”

• “More evidence of the author’s gift for establishing a web so dark and deep-laid that it hardly matters which particular spider wove it.”

• “It’s addictive, bleak, and will give you thrills and chills in equal measures.”

• “Brutal, baroque, and ends with a brilliant last-minute twist.”

• “In The Reckoning, Yrsa Sigurdardóttir exceeds herself and shows once more that she belongs among the top Nordic crime fiction writers. Last year’s novel, The Legacy, was certainly a high point, but The Reckoning is even better. It’s incredible how some authors time and time again manage to convince with great, not to mention intense, thrillers. Yrsa Sigurdardóttir has proven once again that it’s possible. She just gets better and better with every new novel. /…/ It’s risky to say so early on in the year that a novel will be among the major titles of 2017, but in the crime fiction genre I think The Reckoning will be one of this year's highlights! ”

• “[The Reckoning is] in all respects a powerful and thrilling sequel to last year’s The Legacy.”

• “The Reckoning is a crime fiction novel of the highest quality.”

• “Dark, mysterious, macabre – it’s no wonder the world loves Icelandic thrillers. Yrsa Sigurdardóttir writes crime friction that’s eerie, suspenseful and clever. /…/ In keeping with the characteristics of modern crime fiction, this novel combines classic mystery with the thriller’s intense escalation. I am convinced. The Reckoning is a solid work. ”

• “A novel with many unexpected turns, every time you think you have understood the story, it makes a flip right in front of your nose. /…/ [The Reckoning is] one of Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s best novels.”

• “A beautiful and well-crafted story”

• “A refreshing, new kind of Nordic noir”

• “Sigurdardóttir is a master of scary crime novels”

• “Sigurdardóttir writes clever plots. She doesn’t give the reader a chance to figure out the outcome but offers twists and turns in every corner /…/ The dark, partly gloomy atmosphere keeps the reader in a firm grip.”

• “Sigurdardóttir writes in that superb Icelandic crime fiction style, and with great stylistic linguistic finesse. [The Reckoning] features powerful character portrayals, a thrilling plot, and evocative milieu depictions. It’s with good reason she’s counted as Iceland’s queen of crime fiction.”

• “What a delight it is when the second installment in a series manages to outdo the first. /…/ The intrigue is great and leaves room for police officer Huldar’s and child psychologist Freyja’s credibly complex private lives.”

• “The plot is so credible and yet so shocking – honestly put, it makes one put off sleep just to be able to continue reading. A ridiculously good crime novel.”

• “This is a supremely well written story, the plot is exciting and several times it takes sharp and unexpected turns. Readers of crime novels looking for the disturbing and shocking will certainly get their fix from this book.”

• “Yrsa’s best book /…/ extremely powerful /…/ a real page-turner.”

• “Marvelously plotted, highly suspenseful and a surprising ending. /…/ Yrsa at her very best.”

• “Hurrah Yrsa! The story is extremely thrilling and the victims and evil-doers both evoke true feelings of sympathy within the reader.”