Murder After High Mass

By Arndís & Hulda

Sif has simple goals in life. She just wants to keep her wayward parents out of trouble and get a priest’s job so she can guarantee her son a secure future. However, her first job interview after graduating from theology ends in disaster when she and her interviewer,Reverend Reynir discover a dead body on the altar steps.
 
In the chaos that follows, Sif is hired as a temporary churchwarden and is determined to prove herself so that she can be ordained as a priest. But the organist has left, the accounting is in disarray, and to top it all off, a young man from youth work seems to have disappeared without a trace. What on earth was the deceased, Kormákur Austfjörð, Reynir’s special assistant, doing at the neighbourhood retirement home?
 
Murder After High Mass is a light-hearted, cosy-crime novel, full of memorable characters and unparalleled events. Arndís and Hulda are established children’s book authors - both jointly as well as individually - and have received numerous awards for their work both domestically and internationally. This is their first work of adult fiction.
 
READING MATERIAL
Icelandic edition & PDF
English sample translation 38 pp.
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Arndís Þórarinsdóttir (b. 1982) has an undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature and a postgraduate degree in Creative Writing from the University of Iceland, and another one in Writing for Performance from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Hulda Sigrún Bjarnadóttir (b. 1971) studied library science and psychology at the University of Iceland and University of Copenhagen. She has been writing children’s and YA fiction since 2007.