The Reckoning
A Thriller
by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
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Pub Date Feb 12 2019 | Archive Date Feb 28 2020
St. Martin's Press | Minotaur Books
Description
The Reckoning is the stunning follow-up to The Legacy, which was the start of a thrilling new series that Booklist (starred) recommends for fans of Tana French.
Vaka sits, regretting her choice of coat, on the cold steps of her new school. Her father appears to have forgotten to pick her up, her mother has forgotten to give her this week’s pocket money, and the school is already locked for the day. Grownups, she decides, are useless.
With no way to call home, she resigns herself to waiting on the steps until her father remembers her. When a girl approaches, Vaka recognizes her immediately from class, and from her unusual appearance: two of her fingers are missing. The girl lives at the back of the school, on the other side of a high fence, and Vaka asks to call her father from the girl's house. That afternoon is the last time anyone sees Vaka.
Detective Huldar and child psychologist Freyja are called in. Soon, they find themselves at the heart of another shocking case.
From the international number one-bestselling author of The Silence of the Sea, winner of the 2015 Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel Yrsa Sigurdardottir returns with the follow-up to The Legacy.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781250136282 |
| PRICE | $26.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 384 |
Featured Reviews
Rosemary S, Librarian
In her sequel to The Reckoning, Sigurdottir reunites child psychologist Freyia with Detective Huldar in the case of a missing child. The last time anyone saw Vaka, she was waiting outside her school for her father to pick her up. He never shows up, so Vaka goes off with a girl she recognizes from her class, planning to call her father from the girl’s house. Somewhere in the short distance between school and the other girl’s home, Vaka has disappeared. I can’t get enough of Sigurdottir, her books are so fast paced, her characters so well developed and her mysteries so tangled I’m almost always surprised. Kudos also go out to the translator(s) who make these books accessible to all of us
Michelle M, Reviewer
You know when you read a book by an author and suddenly want to read everything that person has ever written? That just happened, that is this book. I love detective mysteries and this was so perfectly written, it felt like it was written for me.
Thank you NetGalley for the ARC
Reviewer 173301
As good if not better than The Legacy. Well worth the read and looking forward to more from this author!!
Marsha S, Reviewer
Yrsa Sigurdardottir is my favorite mystery writer and I have read every one of her books, translated into English from the Icelandic. I read The Legacy before I read this book. The Reckoning is not a sequel as much as the second book in a series (I hope it’s an ongoing series!) featuring the two main characters, Huldur, a police detective, and Freyja, a child psychologist. Their personal and working relationship started in The Legacy, but you don’t need to read the prior book to follow the story, as their past relationship is explained well. This is such an interesting story, albeit very dark and complicated. There is a lot going on but through masterly writing, somehow it all becomes relevant and is all pulled together at the end. I hope this series continues and we hear more from Freyja and Huldar. Five stars.
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