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AUTHOR Sigurdardottir, Yrsa
TITLE: The Undesired
DATE READ: 03/01
RATING 4.5/B+
GENRE/PUB DATE/PUBLISHER/# OF PGS Crime Fiction/ 2015 / Hodder & Stoughton / 353 pgs
SERIES/STAND-ALONE: SA
CHARACTERS Odinn/ single father Run/ his daughter
TIME/PLACE: Present / Iceland
FIRST LINES Odinn Hafsteinsson missed the heft of a hammer in his hand, missed taking aim, raining down blows on a four-inch galvanised nail.
COMMENTS: Really enjoyed this one & will read more by this author. Odinn used to work for his s ...more
TITLE: The Undesired
DATE READ: 03/01
RATING 4.5/B+
GENRE/PUB DATE/PUBLISHER/# OF PGS Crime Fiction/ 2015 / Hodder & Stoughton / 353 pgs
SERIES/STAND-ALONE: SA
CHARACTERS Odinn/ single father Run/ his daughter
TIME/PLACE: Present / Iceland
FIRST LINES Odinn Hafsteinsson missed the heft of a hammer in his hand, missed taking aim, raining down blows on a four-inch galvanised nail.
COMMENTS: Really enjoyed this one & will read more by this author. Odinn used to work for his s ...more

I didn't enjoy this as much as her "Thora" series. The story flits between two time periods which interrupts the flow. Also this has a different translator from others I have enjoyed so maybe that was another reason I didn't get on with it,
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Jul 31, 2019
Helen (read247_instyle_inca)
marked it as to-read