The third crime novel from international bestseller Yrsa Sigurdardottir, & the third featuring her popular heroine Thora, “ Ashes to Dust” is tense, taut & terrifying. Bodies are discovered in one of the excavated houses at a volcanic tourist attraction dubbed ` The Pompeii of the North`. Markús Magnússon, who was only a teenager when the volcano erupted, falls under suspicion & hires attorney Thóra Gudmundsdottir to defend him
- but when his childhood sweetheart is murdered his case starts to look more difficult, & the locals seem oddly reluctant to back him up.. A superb addition to an already stellar series.