Books What (Sic) I Read within 2014: 19. My Soul To Take

First published in 2006, written by the Icelandic author Yrsa Sigurdardottir, and converted into Language in 2009, this is the second outing for Thora Gudmunsdottir, the author's guide character in her own first mature novel, 'Last Rituals'. The plot is placed several moths after the witchcraft of the very first story, and picks up on the relationships proven in the initial book. Matthew the particular German safety expert looks again, just like Thora's children as well as her uncomfortable secretary, Bella.

The structure from the book is actually Prologue (set in February 1945), Epilogue (24th June 2006), together with twelve nights in June '06 creating the main physique of the novel. The story worries 'supernatural' goings-on at a fresh 'new-age' hotel in North Western side Iceland, on the Snaefells peninsula.

Thora will be invited by the proprietor of a new resort to look at the potential for some monetary compensation in the vendors with the land on that the business has been built - this due to the sighting regarding ghosts in the property and also the resulting effect on revenue. The result on the bottom series might be extremely real in light of the hotel's main customers being right now there to investigate New-Age treatments, attend séances and so on - both guests as well as staff as a result being specifically 'sensitive' to issues supernatural.

Thora arrives at the hotel to satisfy the owner, Jonas, as well as the first thing that takes place is that the (young lady) architect of a proposed motel extension is murdered, around the nearby coastline, in the evening half-light, within the fog. The particular architect was invited by text message (sent from Jonas' mobile phone) to meet on the shoreline path. The girl body is identified the next early morning floating inside the shallows among the littoral seaweed, simply by her lover (a local farmer with an unhappy marriage, out checking on the neighborhood eider colony). The photo is a perverted sort of a pre-Raphaelite Ophelia - though here upside-down with her face unrecognizable thanks to the repetitive administration of a large rock.

Enter the police - who immediately focus on Jonas since chief suspect, and which in turn names Thora as his solicitor.

The night time of the homicide there'd been a séance in the hotel, and there'd just been some individuals resident at that time. All extremely Agatha Christie come to think of it: there's a retired older politician; a wildlife photographer having a professional secret; a competitive kayaker; a senior Japanese and the son; a man in the wheelchair, disabled and with a hideously scarred, hooded encounter; and various employees including services staff drawn from the local community, as well as 'specialists' contracted within who can observe auras, contact spirits, give deep massages and work sex-therapy and other 'healing' courses - part and parcel of the hotel's 'therapies'. Whodunit?!

The story concerns supernatural goings-on at a new new-age hotel in North West Iceland, on the Snaefells peninsula. Click here to know more about southasiamcpaportal.