The Absolution, Yrsa Sigurdardottir
The Absolution, Yrsa Sigurdardottir
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The Absolution
A Thriller

Author: Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Narrator: Lucy Paterson

Unabridged: 10 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/11/2020


Synopsis

"Lucy Paterson brings finely honed narration skills to this mystery involving bullying, trauma, and murder." — AudioFile Magazine

The Absolution is the third installment in Queen of Icelandic crime fiction Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s series about the psychologist Freyja and the police officer Huldar.

The police find out about the crime the way everyone does: on Snapchat. The video shows a terrified young woman begging for forgiveness. When her body is found, it is marked with a number “2”.

Detective Huldar joins the investigation, bringing child psychologist Freyja on board to help question the murdered teenager's friends. Soon, they uncover that Stella was far from the angel people claim, but who could have hated her enough to kill?

Then another teenager goes missing, more clips are sent to social media, and the body with a “3” is found. Freyja and Huldar can agree on two things at least: the truth is far from simple. The killer is not done yet. And is there an undiscovered body carrying the number “1” out there?

About Yrsa Sigurdardottir

YRSA SIGURDARDÓTTIR (pronounced UR-suh SIG-ur-dar-daughter) lives with her family in Reykjavík; she is also a director of one of Iceland's largest engineering firms. Her work is found on bestseller lists all over the world, and films are currently in production for several of her books. Her titles include, The Day is Dark and Ashes to Dust.


Reviews

*www.onewomansbbr.wordpress.com *www.facebook.com/onewomansbbr The Absolution by Yrsa Sigurdardottir. (2019 in English, 2016 in Icelandic). (Children's House/Freyja & Huldar, #3). The police find out about the crime the same way everyone does: the horrific videos of the victim sent on Snapchat. When h......more

Goodreads review by 8stitches 9lives on April 19, 2019

Yrsa Sigurdardottir, the queen of Icelandic crime, is back with a spectacular bang in the third thriller in the superb Children's House series. This palpably tense page-turner can be read as a standalone as the plot of each instalment is self-contained, however, after picking up this one there's a g......more

Goodreads review by Dimitris on March 08, 2020

Yrsa Sigurðardóttir is on the top-3 of my all time best favorite Nordic Noir authors and I firmly believe that the Þóra Guðmundsdóttir book series is one of the finest exports of the genre in the last ten years or even more. Sadly, I find the new ''Children's House'' series to be weaker than the Tho......more

Goodreads review by Bruce on July 16, 2019

This is the third novel in the series featuring child psychologist, Freya and police officer, Hulda. It begins with the abduction and murder of a teenage girl by someone wearing a Darth Vader mask – the whole incident being videoed and posted on a website called Snapchat. The whole novel centres arou......more