You may have noticed Yrsa Sigurðardóttir in the first pic in my previous post on the Hay Festival, for which I make no apologies. It was this event at Hay last year that led me to reading her first UK-published crime novel Last Rituals and also to chatting to her and her hubbie at last year's CrimeFest, the following week in Bristol. Yrsa was at pains to say that she was not her protag Thora, even if her own later family experiences reflected those she had created in her fiction. When I read Last Rituals, I found Thora to be much like Yrsa in personality: approachable; chatty; down to earth; intelligent; erudite; juggling; generous and fun with a great dollop of good sense of humour. (Her hubbie too, I hasten to add.) Yrsa was also at pains to say that her crime novels "get better".
And so, a year on, My Soul to Take is now on the shelves in the UK, real and virtual, waiting to be purchased. I have been remiss; I don't have a copy yet, but it's coming and I can't wait. The ever-alert Janet Rudolph at Mystery Fanfare pointed me to the intro video from Yrsa and she said "...The scenery is breathtaking. Yrsa should market this to the Icelandic tourist bureau..." She's right on the nail there. Here's the video. Two caveats: if sensitive to the lives of whales or wild ponies, you may find this video distressing. (And that's serious, not sarcastic.) If you wish to find out more about the background for Yrsa's novels and My Soul to Take in particular, watch this:
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