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The wake

Yrsa Sigurðardóttir2025
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A group of young professionals travel to the Westman Islands off the coast of Iceland to attend an old friend's wake. Their reunion soon turns into a living nightmare, as the memories of a party they attended at university, and desperately tried to forget, come rushing back. When two bodies are found on a rocky beach close to the refurbished lighthouse keeper's house that the group had stayed in, medical examiner Idunn is sent to provide the local police assistance. For Idunn, who grew up on the island, this takes her back to the heart of her complex family and the ghosts of her own past she would prefer to keep at bay. But as the deadly secrets soon become insurmountable, can any of them escape unscathed?
Main title:
The wake / Yrsa Sigurðardóttir ; translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2025.
Collation:
404 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781399722889 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
839.6935FICTION
Language:
EnglishIcelandic
BRN:
8922213
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