![]() ![]() ![]() This apparent coincidence is rendered even more uncanny when Halla, a pensioner who was traumatized as a schoolchild by the earlier incident, hangs herself from a church ceiling-and when Freyr and his lover, Dagný, a police detective, learn of the high mortality rate among Halla’s classmates, none of whom died from natural causes. Sigurdardóttir’s work ( The Day Is Dark, 2013, etc.) has always drawn on both kinds of mysteries-detective stories in which everything is explained rationally and supernatural thrillers in which it isn’t-but this tale of a series of disappearances grounded in long-simmering revenge mixes the two more inextricably than ever before.įreyr, a consulting psychiatrist who’s been called to the scene of a schoolroom that’s been vandalized, finds nothing unusual about the way it’s been trashed and defaced by the word “dirty,” until he learns that the same thing happened to the same room 60 years ago. ![]()
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