The Silence of the Sea Sigurdardttir Yrsa (2015)

An abandoned luxury yacht arrives in Reykjavk harbour with nobody on board, leaving the crew and the family who sailed from Lisbon missing. When a childs chilling voice declares that everyone is dead, the mystery takes an even darker turn. Thra Gumundsdttir is hired by the young fathers parents to investigate and is soon drawn deeper into rumours that the vessel is cursed. When she boards the yacht, she thinks she sees one of the missing twins. Where is Kartas, the glamorous young wife of the yachts former owner, and whose body has washed up further along the shore? Yrsa Sigurardttirs chilling crime novel won the 2015 Petrona Award. The author of the bestselling Thra Gumundsdttir crime series and several standalone thrillers, she was born in Reykjavk, Iceland, in 1963, works as a civil engineer and made her crime-fiction debut in 2005 with Last Rituals. Her work has been translated into more than 30 languages and has been praised by the Times Literary Supplement as standing comparison with the finest contemporary crime writing anywhere in the world.