The Silence of the Sea

Winner of the Petrona Award 2015!

Bestselling and award-winning Icelandic crime author Yrsa Sigurdardottir has produced here a dazzling display of brilliant crime writing.

In Silence of the Sea, the sixth installment in the Thora Gudmundsdottir series, a luxury yacht arrives in Reykjavik harbor with nobody on board. What has happened to the crew, and to the family who were on board when the yacht left Lisbon?

What should Thora make of the rumors saying that the vessel was cursed, especially given that when she boards the yacht she thinks she sees one of the missing children? Where is Karitas, the glamorous young wife of the yacht's former owner? And whose is the body that has washed up further along the shore?

The most chilling novel yet from Yrsa Sigurdardottir, an international bestselling author at the height of her powers.

YRSA SIGURDARDOTTIR (pronounced UR-suh SIG-ur-dar-daughter) lives with her family in Reykjavik. She is a director of one of Iceland's largest engineering firms. She is the bestselling and award-winning Icelandic crime author of the Thora Gudmundsdottir series as well as several stand-alone thrillers. In 2011 her stand-alone horror novelI Remember You was awarded the Icelandic Crime Fiction Award and was nominated for The Glass Key award. Her work is climbing bestseller lists all over the world—and has been translated into more than 30 languages—and films are currently in production for several of her books. Sigurjon Sighvatsson, an Icelandic-born Hollywood producer who has produced films including Killer Elite, Brothers, and Arlington Road, is producing a major Hollywood film of I Remember Youand a TV series based on Thora.