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Gallows Rock / Yrsa Sigurðardóttir ; translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Icelandic Series: Yrsa Sigurðardóttir. Freyja and Huldar ; 4.Publisher: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2020Description: 372 pages ; 24 cm pbkContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781473693401; 1473693403Subject(s): Detective and mystery stories | Police -- Iceland -- Fiction | Psychologists -- Iceland -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Iceland -- Fiction | Abandoned children -- Fiction | Revenge -- Fiction | Revenge | Psychologists | Police | Murder -- Investigation | Detective and mystery stories | Abandoned children | Reykjavík (Iceland) -- Fiction | Iceland | Iceland -- ReykjavíkGenre/Form: Detective and mystery stories. | Psychological fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. | Fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. | Psychological fiction. | Icelandic fiction -- Translations into English.Additional physical formats: ebook version :: No titleDDC classification: FIC SIG Summary: "On a jagged, bleak lava field just outside Reykjavik stands the Gallows Rock. Once a place of execution, it is now a tourist attraction. Until this morning, when a man was found hanging from it...The nail embedded in his chest proves it wasn't suicide. But when the police go to his flat, a further puzzle awaits: a four-year-old boy has been left there. He doesn't seem to have any link with the victim, his parents cannot be found, and his drawings show he witnessed something terrible.As detective Huldar hunts the killer, and child psychologist Freyja looks for the boy's parents, the mystery unfolds: a story of violence, entitlement, and revenge."--Provided by publisher.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Fiction pbk | Shelburne Public Library Shelves | Fiction | FIC SIG | Available | 9500342672142 |
"On a jagged, bleak lava field just outside Reykjavik stands the Gallows Rock. Once a place of execution, it is now a tourist attraction. Until this morning, when a man was found hanging from it...The nail embedded in his chest proves it wasn't suicide. But when the police go to his flat, a further puzzle awaits: a four-year-old boy has been left there. He doesn't seem to have any link with the victim, his parents cannot be found, and his drawings show he witnessed something terrible.As detective Huldar hunts the killer, and child psychologist Freyja looks for the boy's parents, the mystery unfolds: a story of violence, entitlement, and revenge."--Provided by publisher.
Translated from the Icelandic.
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