Just in time for Halloween: Last Rituals, a story of both medieval witchcraft and very modern murder has arrived to thrill and terrify you.
Harald Guntlieb was an unpleasant young man. The German exchange student had caused all sorts of trouble for the faculty of the Reykjavik university he attended; the drug abusing ringleader of a coven of students obsessed with the history of witchcraft. But when Harald turns up dead and brutally mutilated, his body covered in the arcane symbols he had been studying, lawyer Thora Gudmundsdottir must help Harald's family find why her son died, and who truly killed him.
Unlike many current mysteries that play up witches as the theme of the day,the way some use cats or others use knitting, has done her homework into the the very real roots and often ugly history of medieval witchcraft.
creation, Thora is a refreshing change from the usually dour and reticent Scandinavian detectives. Distinctly capable and at the same time wholly over her head in this investigation, Thora Gudmundsdottir is a worthy addition to crime fiction, and the tightly crafted debut in which she stars will keep you reading Last Rituals late into the night, and keep you awake even longer.
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