Name: Last Rituals
ISBN: 9780061143366

Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

An Icelandic Novel of Secret Symbols, Medieval Witchcraft, and Modern Murder

Last Rituals

This is an intriguing mystery that kept me guessing until the very end.  I did not like the amount of focus on the personal life of the main character.  I would have preferred if the book had only focused on solving the mystery, but this is an excellent book in any case.

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Janice Hopper

Another Nordic mystery. A student is dead, and he was mutilated after death. He was a history student, interested in past German and Icelandic witches and witch hunters. He had a group of friends that were supposedly interested in black magic. Is there something weird going on here? His wealthy parents don't think the person arrested for the murder did it. They send a representative to enlist an Icelandic lawyer to help investigate. She finds stuff out.

This one may have some infelicities due to the translation. I thought some of the language was a little clumsy. For the rest of it, I didn't find the characters particularly compelling or interesting. It's actually a pretty straightforward mystery, not very exciting or compelling, to me at least.

Last Rituals An Icelandic Novel of Secret Symbols, Medieval Witchcraft, and Modern Murder