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Ashes to dust, Yrsa Sigurdardâottir ; translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton

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Ashes to dust

Yrsa Sigurdardâottir ; translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton

Bodies are discovered in one of the excavated houses at a volcanic tourist attraction dubbed 'The Pompeii of the North'. Markus Magnusson, who was only a teenager when the volcano erupted, falls under suspicion and hires attorney Thora Gudmundsdottir to defend him - but when his childhood sweetheart is murdered his case starts to look more difficult, and the locals seem oddly reluctant to back him up