The doll / Yrsa Sigur�ard�ottir ; translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yrsa Sigur�ard�ottir., author.

Contributor:

Cribb, Victoria, translator.

Series:

Freyja and Huldar series ; book 5

Standardized Title:

Br�u�an. English

Language:

English

Icelandic

Subjects (All):

Psychologists--Iceland--Fiction.

Psychologists.

Police--Iceland--Fiction.

Police.

Women--Fiction.

Women.

Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

Dolls--Fiction.

Dolls.

Murder--Investigation--Iceland--Fiction.

Murder.

Icelandic fiction.

Detective and mystery stories, Icelandic.

Murder--Investigation.

Iceland.

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction

Fiction

Physical Description:

450 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London, [England] : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2022.

Language Note:

Translated from the Icelandic.

Summary:

It was meant to be a quiet family fishing trip, a chance for mother and daughter to talk. But it changes the course of their lives forever. They catch nothing except a broken doll that gets tangled in the net. After years in the ocean, the doll is a terrifying sight and the mother's first instinct is to throw it back, but she relents when her daughter pleads to keep it. This simple act of kindness proves fatal. That evening, the mother posts a picture of the doll on social media. By the morning, she is dead and the doll has disappeared. Several years later and Detective Huldar is in his least favourite place - on a boat in rough waters, searching for possible human remains. However, identifying the skeleton they find on the seabed proves harder than initially thought, and Huldar must draw on psychologist Freyja's experience to help him.

"It was meant to be a quiet family fishing trip, a chance for mother and daughter to talk. They catch nothing except a broken, terrifying doll. The mother's first instinct is to throw it back, but her daughter pleads to keep it. That evening, the mother posts a picture on social media. It proves fatal. Several years later, and Detective Huldar must use psychologist Freyja's experience to help him identify a body found in the sea. But when Huldar is also drawn into an investigation of a homeless drug addict's murder, and Freyja investigates a suspected case of child abuse, it swiftly becomes clear that all paths lead back to the doll...."--back cover.

Notes:

First published 2021.

ISBN:

1473693500

9781473693500

OCLC:

1231549764

Publisher Number:

99996897608