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Dead Sweet: This year's most gripping debut thriller - first in an ADDICTIVE new Scandinavian Noir series...
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Katrin Juliusdottir (Author) Quentin Bates (Contributor)
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When a celebrated government official is found dead after his surprise birthday party, a young police officer uncovers a terrifying world of financial crime, sinister cults and disturbing secret lives. Icelandic politician Katrin Juliusdottir's award-winning debut - first in a breathtaking series...
**Winner of the Blackbird Award for Best Icelandic Crime Debut**
'A breathtaking political thriller from one of Iceland's most exciting new voices' Eva Bjoerg AEgisdottir
'Katrin Juliusdottir skilfully weaves together intense family dynamics, dark pasts and criminal endeavours in this masterful narrative' Lilja Sigur?ardottir
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A murder is just the beginning...
When Ottar Karlsson, a wealthy and respected government official and businessman, is found murdered, after failing to turn up at his own surprise birthday party, the police are at a loss. It isn't until young police officer Sigurdis finds a well-hidden safe in his impersonal luxury apartment that clues start emerging.
As Ottar's shady business dealings become clear, a second, unexpected line of enquiry emerges, when Sigurdis finds a US phone number in the safe, along with papers showing regular money transfers to an American account. Following the trail to Minnesota, trauma rooted in Sigurdis's own childhood threatens to resurface and the investigation strikes chillingly close to home...
Atmospheric, deeply unsettling and full of breakneck twists and turns, Dead Sweet is a startling debut thriller that uncovers a terrifying world of financial crime, sinister cults and disturbing secret lives, and kicks off an addictive, mind-blowing new series.
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'Exceptional and realistic characters ... Dead Sweet hooks you in from the very first page and keeps you there until the unexpected ending' Blackbird Award judges: Yrsa Sigur?ardottir, Ragnar Jonasson and Bjarni ?orsteinsson
'An excellent debut thriller with a highly original storyline' Saeunn Gisladottir, The Reading Room
What readers are saying...
*****
'Dark, chilling and twisty ... I couldn't put it down'
'Breathtakingly unnerving'
'What an ending!'
'So atmospheric, so clever'
'Sigurdis is a brilliant character'
'The tension is almost unbearable ... I loved it!'
About the Author
Katrin received the Blackbird Award, an Icelandic crime-writing prize, for her first novel, Dead Sweet in 2020. Her debut novel was reviewed well by critics and hit the best-seller lists in the first weeks after publication. Katrin has a political background and was a member of Parliament from 2003 until 2016. Before she was elected to Parliament, Katrin was an advisor and project manager at a tech company and a senior buyer and CEO in the retail sector, as well as the Managing Director of a student union during her uni years. She worked from a young age in the fishing industry, as a store clerk and took night time shifts at a pizza place. She studied Anthropology and has an MBA from Reykjavik University. She was raised in Kopavogur, about 15 minutes' drive from downtown Reykjavik. She now lives in the neighbouring town of Gar?abaer with her family. She is married to author Bjarni M. Bjarnason, who encouraged her to start writing. They have four boys. Quentin Bates escaped English suburbia as a teenager, jumping at the chance of a gap year working in Iceland. For a variety of reasons, the gap year stretched to become a gap decade, during which time he went native in the north of Iceland, acquiring a new language a new profession as a seaman and a family, before decamping en masse for England. He worked as a truck driver, teacher, netmaker and trawlerman at various times before falling into journalism, largely by accident. He is the author of a series of crime novels set in present-day Iceland (Frozen Out, Cold Steal, Chilled to the Bone, Winterlude, Cold Comfort and Thin Ice which have been published worldwide. He has translated all of Ragnar Jonasson's Dark Iceland series.
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- Contributor: Katrin Juliusdottir
- Imprint: Orenda Books
- ISBN13: 9781914585999
- Number of Pages: 256
- Packaged Dimensions: 125x204mm
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Orenda Books
- Release Date: 2023-12-07
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Katrin received the Blackbird Award, an Icelandic crime-writing prize, for her first novel, Dead Sweet in 2020. Her debut novel was reviewed well by critics and hit the best-seller lists in the first weeks after publication. Katrin has a political background and was a member of Parliament from 2003 until 2016. Before she was elected to Parliament, Katrin was an advisor and project manager at a tech company and a senior buyer and CEO in the retail sector, as well as the Managing Director of a student union during her uni years. She worked from a young age in the fishing industry, as a store clerk and took night time shifts at a pizza place. She studied Anthropology and has an MBA from Reykjavik University. She was raised in Kopavogur, about 15 minutes' drive from downtown Reykjavik. She now lives in the neighbouring town of Gar?abaer with her family. She is married to author Bjarni M. Bjarnason, who encouraged her to start writing. They have four boys. Quentin Bates escaped English suburbia as a teenager, jumping at the chance of a gap year working in Iceland. For a variety of reasons, the gap year stretched to become a gap decade, during which time he went native in the north of Iceland, acquiring a new language a new profession as a seaman and a family, before decamping en masse for England. He worked as a truck driver, teacher, netmaker and trawlerman at various times before falling into journalism, largely by accident. He is the author of a series of crime novels set in present-day Iceland (Frozen Out, Cold Steal, Chilled to the Bone, Winterlude, Cold Comfort and Thin Ice which have been published worldwide. He has translated all of Ragnar Jonasson's Dark Iceland series.
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