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Someone to watch over me : a thriller / Yrsa Sigurdardóttir ; translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Icelandic Publisher: New York : Minotaur, 2015Copyright date: ©2013Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: 328 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1250051479
  • 9781250051479
Uniform titles:
  • Horfðu á mig. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: "A young man with Down's Syndrome has been convicted of burning down his assisted living facility and killing five people, but a fellow inmate at his secure psychiatric unit has hired Thora to prove Jakob is innocent. If he didn't do it, who did? And how is the multiple murder connected to the death of a young woman, killed in what was supposed to be a hit-and-run?" -- from publisher's web site.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Vol info Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Mystery Yrsa Sig TG 5 Available 33111007956358
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Bestselling and award-winning Icelandic crime author Yrsa Sigurdardottir is back with the next book in her Thóra Gudmundsdóttir series. SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME, the fifth installment in the Thóra Gudmundsdóttir series, was named Crime Novel of the Year by the Sunday Times.

A young man with Down's Syndrome has been convicted of burning down his assisted living facility and killing five people, but a fellow inmate at his secure psychiatric unit has hired Thora to prove Jakob is innocent. If he didn't do it, who did? And how is the multiple murder connected to the death of a young woman, killed in what was supposed to be a hit-and-run?

"Originally published in Great Britain by Hodder & Stoughton, a Hachette UK company, in 2013"--Title page verso.

"A young man with Down's Syndrome has been convicted of burning down his assisted living facility and killing five people, but a fellow inmate at his secure psychiatric unit has hired Thora to prove Jakob is innocent. If he didn't do it, who did? And how is the multiple murder connected to the death of a young woman, killed in what was supposed to be a hit-and-run?" -- from publisher's web site.

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