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Sandra Sigurðardóttir

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 2 October 1986 

Ethnicity: White - Icelandic

Occupation: Prof soccer player

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Euro féminin : Les Bleues décrochent leur billet pour les quarts !

La France s'est emparée de la première place du groupe D avec un match en moins après deux victoires consécutives. La deuxième place qualificative pour les quarts de finale est toujours en jeu entre les trois autres équipes. L'Islande, qui compte deux points, occupe la deuxième place après avoir fait match nul 1-1 avec l'Italie. La Belgique et l'Italie ferment ce classement avec un point au compteur. La France solide Griedge Mbock Bathy a qualifié la France pour les quarts de finale du Championnat d'Europe féminin. Les Bleues se sont imposées 2-1 contre la Belgique, jeudi. Janice Cayman avait ramené la Belgique dans le match.  Kadidiatou Diani avait ouvert le score de la tête, avant que Mbock Bathy ne marque aussi de la tête à la 41e minute. Dans la ville de Rotherham, au nord de l'Angleterre, la France a connu un match beaucoup plus tendu. Cette rencontre était totalement différente de la large victoire 5-1 face à l'Italie lors du premier match. Malgré un but dès la 6e minute. Karchaoui s'élançait sur la gauche et son centre était repris de la tête par Diani. Karchaoui s'est montrée menaçante sur la gauche et a de nouveau envoyé un ballon à Diani. Mais cette fois, sa tête a été détournée sur le poteau par la gardienne Nicky Evrard à bout portant. La Belgique égalise contre le cours du jeu lorsque Cayman trompe la gardienne Pauline Peyraud-Magnin. Mais la France reprend l'avantage lorsque Mbock Bathy reprend un centre de Clara Matéo. La France gardait le contrôle en seconde période et la Belgique devait remercier Evrard pour avoir évité une défaite plus lourde. La gardienne Belge a réalisé un bel arrêt sur une tentative de Ouleymata Sarr. Lire aussi : Qui va gagner la Coupe du monde 2022 au Qatar ? Voici notre prono ! L'Italie proche de l'élimination La Belgique était réduite à 10 joueuses à la 89e lorsque Amber Tysiak recevait un deuxième carton jaune pour une simulation. Mais Evrard a une nouvelle fois empêché la France de prendre le large en stoppant un penalty de Wendie Renard. Les phases de groupe se terminent lundi avec le match de l'Italie contre la Belgique et l'Islande contre la France. À Manchester, l'Islande a pris l'avantage par Karólína Lea Vilhjálmsdóttir en trois minutes sur la première occasion du match. La longue touche de Sveindís Jane Jónsdóttir semait la panique dans la surface de réparation italienne. Vilhjálmsdóttir décochait un tir qui passait au ras du poteau. Le match a basculé sur deux occasions en l'espace d'une minute juste après l'heure de jeu. Alexandra Jóhannsdóttir avait une occasion en or de doubler la mise pour l'Islande, mais son tir à bout portant passait à côté. L'Italie est ensuite passée à l'autre bout du terrain. Un jeu habile de Barbara Bonansea sur le flanc gauche s'est achevé par une passe pour Valentina Bergamaschi au centre de la surface de réparation. Elle a conclu le but de l'égalisation à la 62e minute. Bonansea a failli trouver la faille, mais la gardienne Sandra Sigurðardóttir a détourné le ballon sur l'intérieur du poteau. Lire aussi : PSG Féminin : Une énième altercation entre joueuses à l'entraînement ! Read the full article

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Oh, what a weekend was to be had at Bloody Scotland 2018. A host of crime fiction, banter, laughter and an awesome feeling of being part of something extremely special.

I thought I would share with you some snippets of my own personal experience.

For me, the thing I love the absolute most from the weekend is the friends you surround yourself with and the new friends you meet over the three days who really make the weekend memorable.

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Day One 

This year I attended with children’s author Sarah Broadley. We arrived at The Golden Lion and Sarah immediately flung herself into the spirit of the weekend.

As we headed up the hill for the opening gala, the air was filled with a feeling of excitement and anticipation of what lay ahead.

Gordon McGhie – Sharon Bairden – Sarah Hardy

Dawn Geddes – Elizabeth Frattaroli – Sandra Ireland – Sarah Broadley

A real highlight for me was the torch procession, there really is no feeling like it. Walking from Stirling Castle down through Stirling to the Albert Halls.

  Sarah Broadley with Alison Belsham

Olga Wojtas

Sandra Ireland

My first author event was Val McDermid and Denise Mina at the Albert Halls.

It was a great way to start the panel events and the camaraderie between Val and Denise was engaging and very funny.

Then the Albert Halls was prepared for the Fun Lovin Crime Writers. This was my very first time seeing them in person.

You can find out about the band here: https://funlovincrimewriters.com/about/

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Day Two 

Saturday daytime was filled with exciting panels.  Followed by an evening at The Coo, which was my overall favourite experience of the weekend. I got to meet a lot of amazing people and hear various performances from crime writers. Plus the banter with my friends really brought the night to an all-time high.

Craig Robertson

Jacky G Collins

Jacky G – Meggy

Sandra Ireland – Lilja Sigurðardóttir

Sandra Ireland

Chris Brookmyre

Alexandra Sokoloff

Gillian Duff

Sarah Broadley

Will Dean

Doug Johnston

Karen Sullivan

Lilja Sigurðardóttir

Jen Lucas

Elizabeth Frattaroli – Dawn Geddes

A truly heartwarming and uplifting experience, a huge thank you to everyone I met and spent time with.

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My Bloody Scotland 2018 Experience @BloodyScotland @Brownlee_Donald #CrimeFiction #Scotland #BookFestival Oh, what a weekend was to be had at Bloody Scotland 2018. A host of crime fiction, banter, laughter and an awesome feeling of being part of something extremely special.

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Two Nordic Psychological Thrillers

The Seven Doors

By Agnes Ravatn

Translated by Rosie Hedger

Orenda Books

Back in late 2016 I was looking for some new authors to read and I stumbled on an article on the CrimeFictionLover website for their top ten Nordic Noir Novels of 2016. In the months that followed I bought 4 of the titles from the list, Gunnar Staalsen, Antii Tuomainen, Kati Heikkapelto and their number one choice The Bird Tribunal by Agnes Ravatn. If anyone questions the power of online reviews, this is a good example!

Here is that list:

https://crimefictionlover.com/2016/12/top-10-nordic-noir-novels-of-2016/

The haunting and very distinctive tale of The Bird Tribunal featured a tiny cast of characters was a very memorable and unusual story set in a very remote part of Norway.  It seemed very far away from the fast moving stories I had been reading by Jussi Adler Olsen and Jo Nesbo.  For several years I heard very little about Agnes Ravatn until I discovered that she had a new book due to be published by Orenda Books in October 2020. I bought it the same day as Betrayal by Lilja Sigurðardóttir but somehow didn’t get around to reading it until recently. So let me tell you it was worth the wait.

The Seven Doors is also a standalone novel featuring narrator Nina Wisloff, a literature professor who is in her earlier sixties. She is married with Mads who is a doctor and they have one grown up daughter who has a three-year-old child.  She is at unsettled period of her life as she and her husband have to leave the house she has lived in all her life, her demanding daughter is also keen to move home and she has little focus on her academic work.

She is persuaded by her daughter Ingeborg to visit another house that the family had inherited from an Aunt.  This is currently being let by a young lady Mari and her 3-year-old son. The visit goes badly when Ingeborg who is expecting her second child states that she intends to move into the property as soon as possible upsetting Mari.  Nina later hears that she has moved out of the house two days later, however the more shocking revelation is to come - Mari has disappeared leaving her son with her grandparents.

Nina has just recently inadvertently made the headlines after stating that literary scholars should be working on police investigations during a lively university debate. So feeling intense unease Nina starts to make her own investigations into the disappearance of Mari.

A crisp and warm translation by Rosie Hedger contrasting to the visual scenes during a Bergen winter help to drive a psychological slow burning story which tackles a range of themes including loyalty, infidelity, inequality in romantic and doctor patient relationships. It’s a book where the story gradually builds with plenty of literary, philosophical and music references throughout.

I do have to say that while Nina is more pleasant than her daughter, she is not always the most likable of narrators, at times coming across as a bit of a busybody. In particularly I pitied the friend she dragged with her to a bar to ‘chance encounter’ Mari’s ex-husband. There are others who get caught up in her investigations. However, she is diligent and we are drawn to her as her tension builds. The last thirty pages are relentless as eventually the truth is revealed in a shocking and chilling climax.   Trust me, it is one that will remain with you.

The Seven Doors is a powerful novel which raises pertinent societal issues and continues to build on Agnes Ravatn’s reputation as one of Europe’s most compelling young psychological thriller writers. It was definitely worth the wait and I look forward to seeing what Ravatn produces next.

Black Ice

Carin Gerhardsen

Translated by Ian Giles

Scarlet Suspense (Penzler Publishers)

With an intriguing cover and a winter setting on the Swedish island of Gotland within the Baltic Sea I was pretty hopeful that I would like this book. Carin Gerhardsen is best known for the trio of Hammarby police procedurals set of novels which commenced with The Gingerbread House. Having the same editorial team and publisher as Stieg Larsson these books were released in the UK by Penguin. Little was heard from Gerhardsen in the seven years since the trilogy was completed until this release of Black Ice by Scarlet Suspense for 29 June 2021.

This is a standalone novel and displays some interesting writing techniques. The narrative follows a distinct approach with diary like extracts from four of the main characters indispersed with occasional newspaper articles. This does naturally mean that the story takes place in the past tense, although it is usually in chronological order.

Beginning in January 2014 on a fateful afternoon we meet Sandra who is offered a life back to her house by a man she has never met before after her taxi fails to appear. We also meet Jeanette who has slipped out of town to find a secluded place behind the back of her husband to meet her married lover. Shortly afterwards two cars meet on a narrow pass which is covered in black ice as a blizzard begins. One driver tries to take aversive action and plunges into the quarry beside the road. The other hesitates and then drives off.

Black Ice shows how fates collide and how complacency from those involved ensures that no one person has full knowledge of the accident which is not reported. The resultant fallout has life changing consequences for the key characters. Four years further on Sandra who provides telephone counselling receives a telephone call from a stranger which begins to bring back some memories.

With a steady pace, the novel unravels the story of how these people’s lives overlapped with clues left to be picked up later and several clever twists. After four years little can be proven. Nobody knows the whole truth but eventually enough of the truth appears to be known for someone to be threatened. This puts the lives of others in danger. From there the novel quickens to a satisfying climax.

Black Ice is an engaging psychological thriller which is well crafted, unpredictable and fairly uniquely written through the points of view of several characters. The narrative style and dilatory behavior of the characters means it will not appeal to everyone. With patience this is a rewarding and distinct read but perhaps just not quite as fulfilling as I'd hoped.

Black Ice is released by Scarlet Suspense on 29 June 2021

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