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ⓘ About Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Yrsa Sigurdardottir was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, on August 24, 1963. This award winning Icelandic author is famously known for her gritty and hard hitting crime novels set within the suburbs of Iceland. She has authored a successful award winning crime series of books based around the central character of Thora Gudmundsdottir, who is a lawyer and single mother of two children. She has also written, to critical acclaim, several stand alone thrillers and horror novels. Yrsa started to write fiction in 1998. Although she predominantly writes crime fiction under the fiction umbrella of ‘Nordic noir’ she has also authored five books for children and teenagers. She wrote The Danes Were in Trouble There, (Par Iagu Danir i pvi), which was her first book for children in 1998.
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Who is Yrsa Sigurdardottir?
Yrsa Sigurdardottir was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, on August 24, 1963. This award winning Icelandic author is famously known for her gritty and hard hitting crime novels set within the suburbs of Iceland. She has authored a successful award winning crime series of books based around the central character of Thora Gudmundsdottir, who is a lawyer and single mother of two children.
Which Yrsa Sigurdardottir series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Thora Gudmundsdottir series, the earliest of Yrsa Sigurdardottir's multi-book series: it opens with Last Rituals (2005) and runs to 6 books across 2005–2011, ending with The Silence of the Sea (2011). Yrsa Sigurdardottir's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Yrsa Sigurdardottir written?
Yrsa Sigurdardottir has 19 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2005 and 2025. 14 of them belong to 3 named series — the largest being the Children's House series with 6 books — and 5 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Yrsa Sigurdardottir's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Yrsa Sigurdardottir's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Thora Gudmundsdottir (2005–2011, 6 books), Children's House (2014–2022, 6 books) and The Black Ice (2024–2025, 2 books).
How are Yrsa Sigurdardottir's books organised into series?
This guide splits Yrsa Sigurdardottir's 19 books into 3 named series and 5 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Children's House (6 books, 2014–2022); Thora Gudmundsdottir (6 books, 2005–2011); The Black Ice (2 books, 2024–2025).