The Undesired

Name: The Undesired
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Yrsa Sigurdardottir
ISBN: 9781444778281

Yrsa Sigurdardottir

22/10/2015
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de The Undesired par Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur The light spilling in from the corridor would have to do. Though weak, it was sufficient to show Ald?s a boy sitting in the gloom at the furthest table. He had his back to her, so she couldn't see who it was, but could tell that he was one of the youngest. A chill ran down her spine when he spoke again, without turning, as if he had eyes in the back of his head. 'Go away. Leave me alone.''Come on. You shouldn't be here.' Ald?s spoke gently, fairly sure now that the boy must be delirious. Confused, rather than dangerous.He turned, slowly and deliberately, and she glimpsed black eyes in a pale face. 'I wasn't talking to you.'Aldis is working in a juvenile detention centre in rural Iceland. She witnesses something deeply disturbing in the middle of the night; soon afterwards, two of the boys at the centre are dead.Decades later, single father Odinn is looking into alleged abuse at the centre following the unexplained death of the colleague who was previously running the investigation. The more he finds out, though, the more it seems the odd events of the 1970s are linked to the accident that killed his ex-wife. Was her death something more sinister?Yrsa Sigurdardottir is a huge European bestseller both with her crime and horror novels. You might want to sleep with the light on after reading THE UNDESIRED . . . Quatrième de couverture Praise for I REMEMBER YOU:'A chiller-thriller of immense scariness . . . Not to be read alone after dark. - The Times'Genuinely bone-chilling, and proves that as well as being the queen of Icelandic crime fiction, Sigurdardottir is a supreme generator of fear . . . (she) is clearly relishing the business of scaring our pants off.' - Independent'Very spooky indeed' - Laura Wilson, Guardian'A truly creepy combination of haunted house story and modern detection in Iceland.' - Sunday Telegraph Biographie de l'auteur Yrsa Sigurdardottir works as a civil engineer and lives in Reykjavik. All her adult novels have been European bestsellers.