Betrayal of Lilja Sigurðardóttir

// novel // detective novel // published in 2020 // 348 pages // Métaillié editions // translation by Jean-Christophe Salaün //

Betrayal, published in France by Métailié in 2020, follows step by step the descent of Úrsúla, appointed Minister of the Interior upon her return from humanitarian missions, into the cynicism of the political milieu and the shenanigans surrounding a national road project.

In the genre of crime fiction, which Iceland, like Scandinavia, has made a specialty of, the playwright and novelist Lilja Sigurðardóttir has written several incisive works on the torments of contemporary Icelandic society, among which one might not necessarily expect... corruption.

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