Last Rituals2007

The spellbinding debut and international sensation being published in thirty countries featuring Thora Gudmundsdottir, a smart, sexy lawyer and investigator whose hunt for a modern murderer points to a very odd—and evil—chapter in Iceland's pastAfter the body of a young German student—with his eyes cut out and strange symbols carved into his chest—is discovered at a university in Reykjavik, the police waste no time in making an arrest. The victim's family isn't convinced they have the right man, however, so they ask Thora Gudmundsdottir, attorney and single mother of two, to investigate. The fee is considerable—more than enough to make things a bit easier for the struggling lawyer and her children.It's not long before Thora and Matthew Reich, her new associate, discover something unusual about the deceased student