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The Undesired

A Thriller

by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Karen Cass
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Aldis hates her job working in a juvenile detention center in rural Iceland. The boys are difficult, the owners are unpleasant, and there are mysterious noises at night. And then two of the boys go astray . . .
Decades later, single father Odinn is looking into alleged abuse at the center. The more he finds out, though, the more it seems the odd events of the 1970s are linked to the accident that killed his ex-wife. Was her death something more sinister?
Yrsa Sigurdardottir is a huge European bestseller both with her crime and horror novels. You might want to sleep with the light on after reading The Undesired. . .

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  • Release date

    May 17, 2017

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781427294425
      • File size: 311589 KB
      • Duration: 10:49:08

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      As narrators, both Karen Cass and Nick Underwood spin a suspenseful, slow-burning tale of hidden secrets and the supernatural. In 1974, Ald�s Agnarsd�ttir, a cleaner in a home for delinquent boys in rural Iceland, becomes infatuated with Einar, a boy with terrible secrets. When Einer and another boy vanish, it is Aldis who pays the price. Decades later, Odinn, a grieving single father, arrives at the home to investigate allegations of mistreatment, unearthing the shattering secrets of the boys' long-ago deaths. Though there is a sense of brooding tension to Underwood's narration, and he switches characters will surprising ease, Cass brings a good deal more energy to her narrative and characters, and, as a result, her sections of the story are more dynamic and engaging. B.E.K. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from November 28, 2016
      Two tales of personal and familial anguish, decades apart, drive this chilling standalone from Icelandic author Sigurdardóttir (Someone to Watch over Me). In the present, single father Ódinn Hafsteinsson, who works for the State Supervisory Agency, investigates abuses that may have occurred during the 1970s at the Krókur care home for delinquent boys, located on a former farm in a remote part of Iceland. Those who were mistreated could be entitled to damages. Meanwhile, Ódinn fears that he caused his ex-wife’s death and that he has thus done irreparable psychic damage to his 11-year-old daughter, Rún, who suffers from nightmares involving her late mother. Flash back to 1974. Aldís, a teenage girl who’s estranged from her mother and performs grueling domestic duties at Krókur, becomes infatuated with Einar, a boy at the home with a terrible secret in his past. When Einar and another boy disappear, Aldís pays a terrible price. The two narratives converge on an exciting climax that testifies to Sigurdardóttir’s command of psychological nuance and bitter irony.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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