Vorið sem Hallgerður fermist verða þau tvö fermingarbörn sem skara fram úr í kristilegu hugarfari verðlaunuð með Parísarferð. Hallgerður ætlar sér að sigra og velur boðorðin tíu til að lifa eftir - þau eru svo sjálfsögð að það er næstum ómögulegt að brjóta þau. Eða hvað? Ef aðstæður eru manni sérstaklega andsnúnar og dómarinn óþarflega harður er kannski allt hægt! Enn ein sprenghlægileg saga úr smiðju Yrsu Sigurðardóttur.
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir is an Icelandic writer, of both crime-novels and children's fiction. She has been writing since 1998. Her début crime-novel "Last Rituals" published in the US in 2007, and the UK in January 2008 was translated into English by Bernard Scudder, and is book 1 of the Thóra Gudmundsdóttir series.
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir graduated from high-school in 1983, finished a B.Sc. in civil engineering from the University of Iceland in 1988 and M.Sc in the same field from Concordia University in Montreal in 1997.
Yrsa now works as a civil engineer for the company Fjarhitun, as well as being a writer.
In 2000 the Icelandic department of IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) awarded Yrsa for her book Við viljum jólin í júlí (We Want Christmas in July).
Yrsa lives in the Reykjavík suburb of Seltjarnarnes. She is married with two children.