The Day Is Dark

The Day Is Dark - Thora Gudmundsdottir

Paperback (26 Feb 2013)

Not available for sale

Includes delivery to the United States

Out of stock

This service is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Publisher's Synopsis

There's something out there...

Iceland's answer to Stieg Larsson.

--Daily Telegraph


Iceland's crime queen.

--The Scotsman

Engaging, fresh, and exciting.

--James Patterson


Yrsa Sigurdardóttir is widely regarded around the world as one of the best Nordic crime writers working today. Yrsa's previous book in the series, Ashes to Dust, also featured lawyer and sometime sleuth Thóra Gudmundsdóttir and received rave reviews internationally.

In The Day is Dark, when all contact is lost with two Icelanders working in a harsh and sparsely populated area on the coast of Greenland, Thóra is hired to uncover the fates of the missing people. When she arrives in Greenland, she discovers that these aren't the first two to go missing. The local townspeople believe that the area is cursed, and no one wants to get involved in the case. Soon, Thora finds herself stranded in the middle of a wilderness, and the case is as frightening and hostile as the landscape itself.

Chilling, unsettling, and compulsively readable, The Day is Dark is a must read for readers who are looking for the next big thing in crime fiction coming in from the cold.

Book information

ISBN: 9781250029409
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Imprint: Minotaur Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: FIC
Language: English
Number of pages: 370
Weight: 331g
Height: 209mm
Width: 141mm
Spine width: 25mm