Ekkert samband næst við tvo Íslendinga í einangruðum rannsóknarbúðum á Norðaustur Grænlandi. Þóra Guðmundsdóttir lögmaður, sem lesendur þekkja úr fyrri bókum Yrsu Sigurðardóttur, tekur þátt í leiðangri sem gerður er til að kanna aðstæður. Hvað varð um mennina tvo? Hver voru örlög konu sem hvarf úr búðunum nokkru áður? Af hverju hafa heimamenn illan bifur á þessu afskekkta svæði? Hvaða óhugnanlegu atburðir hafa átt sér stað þarna úti í auðninni? Yrsa Sigurðardóttir í sínu besta formi!
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir is an Icelandic writer, of both crime-novels and children's fiction. She has been writing since 1998. Her début crime-novel "Last Rituals" published in the US in 2007, and the UK in January 2008 was translated into English by Bernard Scudder, and is book 1 of the Thóra Gudmundsdóttir series.
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir graduated from high-school in 1983, finished a B.Sc. in civil engineering from the University of Iceland in 1988 and M.Sc in the same field from Concordia University in Montreal in 1997.
Yrsa now works as a civil engineer for the company Fjarhitun, as well as being a writer.
In 2000 the Icelandic department of IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) awarded Yrsa for her book Við viljum jólin í júlí (We Want Christmas in July).
Yrsa lives in the Reykjavík suburb of Seltjarnarnes. She is married with two children.