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Lilja Sigurðardóttir

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Born

in Akranes, Iceland

Website

http://www.liljawriter.com

Twitter

lilja1972

Genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Crime, Suspense

Member Since

October 2015

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Lilja´s newest book, Netið ((Tangle) was published by Forlagid publishing in October 2016 and is the second book in the Reykjavík Noir Trilogy.
Lilja started her writing career in 2008 when she sent a manuscript of a novel to a competition run by the publishing house Bjartur whose aim was to find the Icelandic Dan Brown. Lilja got a publishing deal out of the competition and in 2009 her first book, the crime novel Spor (Steps), came out, which she wrote in her spare time. Her second book, Fyrirgefning (Foregiveness) was published a year later but after that Lilja wrote mostly for theatre for the coming years. She won the Icelandic Theatre Awards for Best Play of the Year in 2014 for her staged debut Stóru börnin (Big Babies). But in 2015 she ...more

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Average rating: 3.84 · 19,802 ratings · 1,595 reviews · 31 distinct works • Similar authors

	Cold as Hell (An Áróra Investigation, #1) by Lilja Sigurðardóttir (Goodreads Author), Quentin Bates (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.69 avg rating — 4,577 ratings — published 2015 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Snare (Reykjavik Noir Trilogy, #1) by Lilja Sigurðardóttir (Goodreads Author), Quentin Bates (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.78 avg rating — 3,753 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red as Blood (An Áróra Investigation, #2) by Lilja Sigurðardóttir (Goodreads Author), Quentin Bates (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.94 avg rating — 2,426 ratings — published 2020 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White as Snow (An Áróra Investigation, #3) by Lilja Sigurðardóttir (Goodreads Author), Quentin Bates (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.08 avg rating — 2,041 ratings — published 2021 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trap (Reykjavik Noir Trilogy, #2) by Lilja Sigurðardóttir (Goodreads Author), Quentin Bates (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.83 avg rating — 1,715 ratings — published 2019 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cage (Reykjavik Noir Trilogy, #3) by Lilja Sigurðardóttir (Goodreads Author), Quentin Bates (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.73 avg rating — 1,402 ratings — published 2017 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Betrayal by Lilja Sigurðardóttir (Goodreads Author), Quentin Bates (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.92 avg rating — 1,293 ratings — published 2018 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark as Night (An Áróra Investigation, #4) by Lilja Sigurðardóttir (Goodreads Author), Lorenza García (Translator) 4.05 avg rating — 1,246 ratings — published 2022 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sysimusta kuilu by Lilja Sigurðardóttir (Goodreads Author), Seija Holopainen (Translator) 3.93 avg rating — 550 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Reykjavik Noir Trilogy #1-3 4.18 avg rating — 343 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Lilja Sigurðardóttir

An Áróra Investigation (5 books)
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Lilja Sigurðardóttir (Goodreads Author),

Seija Holopainen (Translator)

3.87 avg rating — 10,840 ratings

Reykjavík Noir Trilogy (3 books)
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Lilja Sigurðardóttir (Goodreads Author),

Quentin Bates (Goodreads Author) (Translator)

3.80 avg rating — 7,213 ratings

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“People bury deep inside themselves experiences and memories that are too painful to deal with, and doing this deadens their emotions. But the numbness works against them over time because having no feelings leads to depression, and people seek out behaviour that sparks emotion. Generally that tends to be behaviour that to some extent is self-harming,”
― Lilja Sigurðardóttir, Betrayal

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“Iceland would never be much more than a remote outpost.”
― Lilja Sigurðardóttir, Snare

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“to see a little brightness as a funeral came to an end, when the flag was raised again and the soul had flown away to heaven, overjoyed at being freed from Earth’s gravity.”
― Lilja Sigurðardóttir, Cold as Hell

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Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie

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Cold as Hell by Lilja Sigurðardóttir

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Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell

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Rose's Last Summer by Margaret Millar

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Death in the East by Abir Mukherjee

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