The wake
2025
Book
A group of young professionals travel to the Westmann Islands off the coast of Iceland to attend an old friend's wake. Their reunion soon turns into a living nightmare, as the memories of a party they attended at university, and desperately tried to forget, come rushing back. Two bodies are found on a rocky beach close to the refurbished lighthouse keeper's house that the group had stayed inches Medical examiner Iounn, and detectives Tyr and Karo, are sent to provide the local police assistance. For Iounn, who grew up on the island, this takes her back to the heart of her complex family and the ghosts of her own past she would prefer to keep at bay. But as the deadly secrets soon become insurmountable, can any of them escape unscathed?
Item Details
ISBN: 9781399722896
Description: 404 pages ; 24 cm.
Other Title: Gættu þinna handa. English
Notes:
- First published in Icelandic in 2022 as Gættu þinna handa.
- In English, translated from the Icelandic.
Control Number: 3399792
Publisher: London : Hodder and Stoughton, 2025.Series:
- The black ice series
- The black ice series ; 2
- Yrsa Sigurðardóttir. Black ice
- Yrsa Sigurðardóttir. Black ice ; 2.
Subjects:
- Detectives -- Iceland -- Fiction.
- Medical examiners (Law) -- Iceland -- Fiction.
- Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
- Police -- Iceland -- Fiction.
- Reunions -- Fiction.
- Secrecy -- Fiction.
- Wake services -- Fiction.
- Westman Islands (Iceland) -- Fiction.
Genre:
Other Authors: Cribb, Victoria, translator.