Someone to Watch Over Me: A Thriller

Bestselling and award-winning Icelandic crime author Yrsa Sigurdardottir is back with the next book in her Th ra Gudmundsd ttir series. SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME, the fifth installment in the Th ra Gudmundsd ttir 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?

YRSA SIGURDARDÓTTIR (pronounced UR-suh SIG-ur-dar-daughter) lives with her family in Reykjavík. She is a director of one of Iceland's largest engineering firms. Her work is climbing bestseller lists all over the world, and films are currently in production for several of her books. She is the author of Ashes to Dust, Day is Dark, and I Remember You.