false 1613280 12 The spellbinding debut and international sensation being published in thirty countries featuring Thóra Gudmundsdóttir, a smart, sexy lawyer and investigator whose hunt for a modern murderer points to a very odd &#8212; and evil &#8212; chapter in Iceland's past.</b> After the body of a young German student &#8212; with his eyes cut out and strange symbols carved into his chest &#8212; is discovered at a university in Reykjavík, the police waste no time in making an arrest. The victim's family isn't convinced they have the right man, however, so they ask Thóra Gudmundsdóttir, attorney and single mother of two, to investigate. The fee is considerable &#8212; more than enough to make things a bit easier for the struggling lawyer and her children. It's not long before Thóra and Matthew Reich, her new associate, discover something unusual about the deceased student: He had been obsessed with the country's grisly history of torture, execution, and witch hunts &#8212; a topic made all the more peculiar by the fact that unlike witch hunts in other countries, those in Iceland had targeted men . . . not women. As Thóra and Matthew dig deeper, they make the connection between long-bygone customs and the student's murder. But the shadow of dark traditions conceals secrets in both the past and the present, and the investigators soon realize that nothing is as it seems . . . and that no one can be trusted. 2296044 2005 Last Rituals: An Icelandic Novel of Secret Symbols, Medieval Witchcraft, and Modern Murder total:171|5:17|4:45|3:68|2:37|1:4| 171 547 273 60 3 2 false false Mon Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 22 21:53:16 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 20:31:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 07:55:56 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 13:13:59 -0800 2009
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Taking place in Iceland, Last Rituals is the first book of a series that benefits from that interest an...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 13:04:47 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 11:53:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 22 09:58:30 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 28 23:54:38 -0700 2008 1 Last Rituals. The story revolves around around a German exchange student Harald Guntlieb and his group of friends in Reykja...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 09:49:28 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 08:55:58 -0700 2008
I was prepared for a much grislier tale ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 13 18:36:44 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 18:38:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 14 12:12:48 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 07:13:47 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Fri May 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 12 09:40:46 -0800 2008 Sat May 17 08:03:15 -0700 2008
Last Rituals wasn't bad but it wasn't great. ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 21 12:24:51 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 25 14:43:54 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 09:26:41 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 09:30:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 15:43:40 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 14:53:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 17:31:56 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 17:34:04 -0700 2009
The witchcraft part was fascinat...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 19 10:15:40 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 10:17:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 01:27:27 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 07:45:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sat Jan 10 12:17:15 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 12:20:51 -0800 2009 ----------------
This is icelandic writer captivated me with her write style and then I shearching for all she write. So the next one will be in english.]]> 3 0 false false Wed Mar 25 19:06:44 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 16:32:38 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 00:23:06 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 16:21:03 -0800 2009
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