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Someone to Watch Over Me
- Thora Gudmundsdottir, Book 5
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Nellis-Pain
- Series: Thora Gudmundsdottir, Book 5
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thriller & Suspense
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- By: Yrsa Sigurdardottir
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Nellis-Pain
- Length: 10 hrs
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A luxury yacht arrives in Reykjavik harbour with nobody on board. What has happened to the crew, and to the family who were on board when it left Lisbon? Thora Gudmundsdottir is hired by the young father's parents to investigate, and is soon drawn deeper into the mystery. What should she make of the rumours saying that the vessel was cursed, especially given that when she boards the yacht she thinks she sees one of the missing twins? Where is Karitas, the glamorous young wife of the yacht's former owner? And whose is the body that has washed up further along the shore?
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The Day Is Dark
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- By: Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Philip Roughton
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Nellis-Pain
- Length: 10 hrs
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When all contact is lost with two Icelanders working in a harsh and sparsely populated area on the northeast coast of Greenland, Thora is hired to investigate. Is there any connection with the woman who vanished from the site some months earlier? Why are the locals so hostile? And could one of the team staying at the site with Thora be responsible for the disappearances?
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Ashes to Dust
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- By: Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Philip Roughton
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Nellis-Pain
- Length: 10 hrs
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Bodies are discovered in one of the excavated houses at a volcanic tourist attraction dubbed 'The Pompeii of the North'. Markus Magnusson, who was only a teenager when the volcano erupted, falls under suspicion and hires attorney Thora Gudmundsdottir to defend him—but when his childhood sweetheart is murdered, his case starts to look more difficult, and the locals seem oddly reluctant to back him up.
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My Soul to Take
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- By: Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Bernard Scudder - translator, Anna Yates
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Nellis-Pain
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
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A grisly murder is committed at a health resort situated in a recently renovated farmhouse, which turns out to be notorious for being haunted. Attorney Thora Gudmundsdottir is called upon by the owner of the resort—the prime suspect in the case—to represent him. Her investigations uncover some very disturbing occurrences at the farm decades earlier—things that have never before seen the light of day....
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Gallows Rock
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- Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
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Not bad
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The Silence of the Sea
- Thora Gudmundsdottir, Book 6
- By: Yrsa Sigurdardottir
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Nellis-Pain
- Length: 10 hrs
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A luxury yacht arrives in Reykjavik harbour with nobody on board. What has happened to the crew, and to the family who were on board when it left Lisbon? Thora Gudmundsdottir is hired by the young father's parents to investigate, and is soon drawn deeper into the mystery. What should she make of the rumours saying that the vessel was cursed, especially given that when she boards the yacht she thinks she sees one of the missing twins? Where is Karitas, the glamorous young wife of the yacht's former owner? And whose is the body that has washed up further along the shore?
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The Day Is Dark
- Thora Gudmundsdottir, Book 4
- By: Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Philip Roughton
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Nellis-Pain
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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When all contact is lost with two Icelanders working in a harsh and sparsely populated area on the northeast coast of Greenland, Thora is hired to investigate. Is there any connection with the woman who vanished from the site some months earlier? Why are the locals so hostile? And could one of the team staying at the site with Thora be responsible for the disappearances?
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Ashes to Dust
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- By: Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Philip Roughton
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Nellis-Pain
- Length: 10 hrs
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Bodies are discovered in one of the excavated houses at a volcanic tourist attraction dubbed 'The Pompeii of the North'. Markus Magnusson, who was only a teenager when the volcano erupted, falls under suspicion and hires attorney Thora Gudmundsdottir to defend him—but when his childhood sweetheart is murdered, his case starts to look more difficult, and the locals seem oddly reluctant to back him up.
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My Soul to Take
- Thora Gudmundsdottir, Book 2
- By: Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Bernard Scudder - translator, Anna Yates
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Nellis-Pain
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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- Thora Gudmundsdottir, Book 1
- By: Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Bernard Scudder - translator
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Nellis-Pain
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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A young man is found brutally murdered, his eyes gouged out. A student of Icelandic history in Reykjavik, he came from a wealthy German family who do not share the police's belief that his drug dealer murdered him. Attorney Thora Gudmundsdottir is commissioned by his mother to find out the truth, with the help—and hindrance—of boorish ex-policeman Matthew Reich. Their investigations into his research take them deep into a grisly world of torture and witchcraft both past and present, as they draw ever closer to a killer gripped by a dangerous obsession.
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- Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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Not bad
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Twists turns tension
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Great twists and turns
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Very disappointing
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Great performance. Story is ok.
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My favorite one yet
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Decent Scandi Noir
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Interesting.
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Love this authors work in general & this book did not disappoint
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Publisher's Summary
A creepy, compelling thriller, Someone to Watch Over Me is the fifth Thora Gudmundsdottir novel from Yrsa, 'Iceland's answer to Stieg Larsson' (Daily Telegraph).
A young man with Down's syndrome has been convicted of burning down his care home and killing five people, but a fellow inmate at his secure psychiatric unit has hired Thora to prove Jakob is innocent.
If he didn't do it, who did? And how is the multiple murder connected to the death of Magga, killed in a hit and run on her way to babysit?
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