Yrsa Sigurdardottir is the internationally acclaimed Icelandic novelist, author of Last Rituals (2008), My Soul to Take (2009), and Ashes to Dust (2010). Yrsa's main protagonist is the lawyer Thora Gudmundsdottir, who through her job in a small Reykjavik law firm, stumbles upon weird cases of mysterious deaths, past and present. In her latest book in English, Ashes to Dust, it is the unveiling of three dead bodies and one human head under a pile of ash from the 1973 volcanic eruption in the Vestmanna Islands that sets Thora on the trail of truths coincidentally and conveniently hidden by a natural catastrophe. Introduced by Dr Reynir Por Eggertsson (UCL Scandinavian Studies)