Last Rituals is the first case for the likeable Icelandic lawyer, Thóra
Last Rituals is definitely not just a detective story. The vividly depicted life of divorced lawyer Thóra, both professional and romantic, and her teenage children make the book the perfect read for all lovers of thrilling, yet human stories. Fans of mystery and magic will be delighted by the realistic insight into this most interesting of fields, and fans of crime stories will be captivated by the thrilling hunt for the killer.
In the building of the university's history department in Reykjavik, the mutilated body of a German student, Harald, is found. His eyes have been gouged out and his body is marked with a magical rune. The victim's wealthy family hires a former detective, Matthias, and an Icelandic lawyer, Thóra. It soon becomes clear that Harald founded a society for those interested in witchcraft and was a passionate student of the Icelandic witch trials. He had many tattoos, had his tongue split to look like a snake's, and was interested in torture, which he may have even practised himself.
Thóra and Matthias logically look for the killer among the adepts of magic. Another clue, a poem written in blood, leads to Harald's family, where everything is clearly not as it seems. Thrown into the mix is a mysterious manuscript, a map to a mysterious object, to which the seeker is to be led by the “third sign”.
