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Why Did You Lie?

by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb

Publication
English translation 2016
ISBN
9781473605022

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A journalist on the track of an old case attempts suicide. An ordinary couple return from a house swap in the states to find their home in disarray and their guests seemingly missing. Four strangers struggle to find shelter on a windswept spike of rock in the middle of a raging sea. They have one thing in common: they all lied. And someone is determined to punish them. Why Did You Lie? is a terrifying tale of long-delayed retribution from Iceland's queen of suspense.

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Also translated by Victoria Cribb

Same country and decade

Iceland · 2010s

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