Someone to Watch Over Me

'Berglind hurried to her son and pulled him forcefully from the window. She held him close and tried at the same time to wipe the windowpane. But the haze couldn't be wiped away. It was on the outside of the glass. 'Magga's outside. She can't get in. She wants to look after me.' He pointed at the window and frowned. 'She's a little bit angry.'

A young man with Down's Syndrome has been convicted of burning down his care home and killing five people, but a fellow inmate at his secure psychiatric unit has hired Thora to prove Jakob is innocent.

If he didn't do it, who did? And how is the multiple murder connected to the death of Magga, killed in a hit-and-run accident on her way to babysit?

“Yrsa Sigurdardottir is ensconced at or near the summit of Nordic crime writing, and the lawyer Th”

ora Gudmundsdottir is an appealing heroine full of real-life problems. Someone to Watch Over Me is Sigurdardottir's most ambitious, deepest novel, less reliant on the Icelandic landscape, more concerned with damaged minds. - The Times

Iceland's answer to Stieg Larsson. - Daily Telegraph on Ashes to Dust

Put simply, it's terrifying. And brilliant. - Stylist on The Day is Dark

Publishers and blurb writers are competing to hail the new monarch of Nordic crime fiction... I would be tempted to offer a name not from the obvious crime soil of Sweden or Norway, but from bleak and moody Iceland... - Marcel Berlins, The Times

Stands comparison with the finest contemporary crime writing anywhere in the world. - TLS on Ashes to Dust

Superbly atmospheric. - Heat on The Day is Dark

The twists and turns are as chilling as the weather . . . [a] pageturner. - Bella on The Day is Dark

Yrsa Sigurdardottir works as a civil engineer and lives in Reykjavik. She wrote prize-winning children's novels before writing Last Rituals, her first adult novel.

'Berglind hurried to her son and pulled him forcefully from the window. She held him close and tried at the same time to wipe the windowpane. But the haze couldn't be wiped away. It was on the outside of the glass. 'Magga's outside. She can't get in. She wants to look after me.' He pointed at the window and frowned. 'She's a little bit angry.' A young man with Down's Syndrome has been convicted of burning down his care home and killing five people, but a fellow inmate at his secure psychiatric unit has hired Thora to prove Jakob is innocent. If he didn't do it, who did? And how is the multiple murder connected to the death of Magga, killed in a hit-and-run accident on her way to babysit?

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