Stop Dead by Katrin Juliusdottir

This book is a premium first copy, similar to the original but not the original.

Katrin received the Blackbird Award, an Icelandic crime-writing prize, for her first novel, Dead Sweet in 2020. Her debut novel was reviewed well by critics and hit the best-selling lists in the first weeks after publication. Katrin has a political background and was a member of Parliament from 2003 until 2016. Before she was elected to Parliament, Katrin was an advisor and project manager at a tech company and a senior buyer and CEO in the retail sector, as well as the Managing Director of a student union during her uni years. She worked from a young age in the fishing industry, as a store clerk and took nighttime shifts at a pizza place. She studied Anthropology and has an MBA from Reykjavik University. She was raised in Kopavogur, about 15 minutes’ drive from downtown Reykjavik. She now lives in the neighbouring town of Gardabaer with her family. She is married to author Bjarni M. Bjarnason, who encouraged her to start writing. They have four boys.