I love the Children's House series and Yrsa delivers again with The Doll. Such engaging
characters and a compelling twisted and creepy mystery - I couldn't put it down!' SHARI LAPENA
'Yrsa is a wonderful storyteller. Her stories are atmospheric mysterious and brilliantly
plotted ... you will never see the twists coming' MARI HANNAH 'A magnificent writer' KARIN
SLAUGHTER It was meant to be a quiet family fishing trip a chance for mother and daughter to
talk. But it changes the course of their lives forever. They catch nothing except a broken doll
that gets tangled in the net. After years in the ocean the doll a terrifying sight and the
mother's first instinct is to throw it back but she relents when her daughter pleads to keep
it. This simple act of kindness proves fatal. That evening the mother posts a picture of the
doll on social media. By the morning she is dead and the doll has disappeared. Several years
later and Detective Huldar is in his least favourite place - on a boat in rough waters
searching for possible human remains. However identifying the skeleton they find on the seabed
proves harder than initially thought and Huldar must draw on psychologist Freyja's experience
to help him. As the mystery of the unidentified body deepens Huldar is also drawn into an
investigation of a homeless drug addict's murder and Freyja investigates a suspected case of
child abuse at a foster care home. What swiftly becomes clear is that the cases are linked
through a single missing vulnerable witness: the young girl who wanted the doll all those
years ago. Taut terrifying and impossible to put down The Doll cements Yrsa Sigurdardottir's
reputation as a master of storytelling tension and surprise.
