Yrsa Sigurdardottir Books in Order

At a Reykjavik university, a German student obsessed with witch-hunts is found strangled, his eyes removed and symbols carved into his skin. Hired by his family, lawyer Thora Gudmundsdottir and investigator Matthew Reich dig into secrets and campus rivalries.

On Iceland’s remote west coast, a new spa built on an old farm becomes the scene of a murder, the victim left with pins driven into her feet. Thora must defend the eccentric owner while uncovering the farm’s unsettling history and the link between past and present deaths.

In the volcanic Westman Islands, excavation of houses buried by a 1973 eruption uncovers three bodies and a severed head in Thora’s client’s childhood home. As she tries to clear his name, Thora exposes decades of betrayal, missing people, and secrets the community wants left under the ash.

In an abandoned mining camp in Greenland, three workers have vanished and everyone else refuses to return. Sent to protect a bank’s investment, Thora and Matthew face fierce weather, wary locals, and unnerving legends as they uncover what really happened in the snowbound outpost.

Years after a deadly fire at a care home, a young man with Down syndrome sits convicted of starting the blaze. When a fellow inmate hires Thora to prove his innocence, she uncovers abuses, official failures, and a disturbing link to an earlier hit and run death.

In an abandoned village in Iceland’s Westfjords, three friends renovating a derelict house quickly realise they are not alone. Across the fjord, a doctor grieving his missing son investigates an elderly woman’s suicide. As the two stories collide, a relentless ghost story and a cold-case mystery become one.

A luxury yacht crashes into Reykjavik harbour with no one on board, though a family and crew left Lisbon days earlier. Hired by the grandparents of a surviving toddler, Thora reconstructs the doomed voyage and exposes greed, desperation, and a crime committed far from shore.

Single father Ódinn is assigned to review historic abuse claims at a remote 1970s home for delinquent boys, but the files hint at suspicious deaths and cover ups. Chapters from Aldís, a young worker at the home, gradually reveal how past cruelty still shapes Ódinn’s troubled present.

A journalist investigating an old case, a couple returning from a house swap abroad, and technicians stranded on a storm lashed lighthouse each face escalating threats. They do not know one another, but they have all lied, and someone is patiently arranging a terrifying reckoning.

When a young mother is murdered in her Reykjavik home, the only witness is her seven year old daughter, found hiding under the bed. Newly promoted detective Huldar turns to child psychologist Freyja and the Children’s House to reach the girl as a vengeful killer leaves coded messages and more victims.

Schoolgirl Vaka vanishes from the steps of her new school, and years later a school time capsule reveals chilling clues about what happened. Huldar and Freyja investigate a series of ritual tinged murders linked to childhood abuse, anonymous letters, and a list of names someone is methodically erasing.

A teenage cinema worker is abducted, forced to apologise on video, and later found dead with the number two marked nearby. As more clips and victims follow, Huldar and Freyja race to stop a killer who targets bullies and uses social media to expose their cruelty.

A wealthy investor is found hanging from the Gallows Rock outside Reykjavik, a nail driven into his chest. At his flat, police discover an abandoned four year old boy with no clear link to the victim, and Huldar and Freyja must protect the child while unpicking a revenge soaked mystery.

A man called back to his childhood home receives a box of old photos and a child’s shoe marked with a girl’s name no one recalls. At the same time, a rescue team hunts missing hikers and a radar operator hears eerie calls, until all three threads meet on the frozen highlands.

A mother and daughter haul a barnacled doll from the sea, and by morning the mother is dead and both child and doll are gone. Years later, Huldar and Freyja investigate a skeleton on the seabed, a murdered addict, and abuse allegations, all circling one missing girl and her sinister toy.

On a cold Reykjavik day, a baby disappears from her pram and her mother is later found dead on the beach. Eleven years on, Huldar and Freyja investigate a dismembered body in a car, discovering that the new murder and the old missing child are bound by buried family secrets.

In a secluded Icelandic fjord, a neighbour breaks into a silent family home and finds a massacre. Detectives Tyr and Karo, with forensic pathologist Idunn, must unravel the family’s hidden history, confronting their own buried traumas as the case opens a Pandora’s box of much darker crimes.

A group of former university friends travels to the Westman Islands for an old friend’s wake, only to have long buried memories resurface. When two bodies are found near their lighthouse lodging, Idunn, Tyr, and Karo must untangle grief, guilt, and a deadly secret from the past.