Look out for these two – outlier cops Rado and Dóra in Jón Atli Jónasson's startlingly original Broken
Pub 12th June. It was going to be 13th, but that's a Friday and we didn't want to tempt fate... But you can see the author at @capitalcrime.bsky.social on Fri 13th!
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Pub 12th June. It was going to be 13th, but that's a Friday and we didn't want to tempt fate... But you can see the author at @capitalcrime.bsky.social on Fri 13th!
amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DVZFZ6Y7
May 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
'Weird coincidences are the Lord’s sick jokes,' as Stella Blomkvist's Mother would say. No one knows who Stella the author is, but we all know Stella the razor-sharp legal eagle
October 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Can't stop staring at the beautiful page dedicated to all of our publications so far on the Gumshoe Books website!
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Imprint: Corylus Books
Corylus Books is an independent publisher, specialising in translating crime fiction into English.
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October 24, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This fun 'locked room' style mystery is on a kindle 99p offer until 5th January! You're welcome! ( #DeathOnTheIsland in the US) #BookSky #IcelandicNoir 🔎💀📚💙 #Iceland #Mystery #AgathaChristie
Here's the UK's beautiful cover! I'm also looking forward to Iceland Noir to see Eliza & also @everleaf-paul.bsky.social, who came up with a cocktail that features in the book and...dun dun duuuh... is the husband of lovely diplomat @bryonymathew.bsky.social! #BookSky #DeathOfADiplomat #NordicNoir 🇮🇸
December 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This fun 'locked room' style mystery is on a kindle 99p offer until 5th January! You're welcome! ( #DeathOnTheIsland in the US) #BookSky #IcelandicNoir 🔎💀📚💙 #Iceland #Mystery #AgathaChristie
Ooh all my #Iceland book buddies, you're going to want to get hold of this one! @angryalgonquin.bsky.social
@suekelsoryan.bsky.social
@suemetal.bsky.social @loopyk.bsky.social
@brownflopsy.bsky.social
@bethreadscrime.com
@lavieenprose.bsky.social to name but a few! #Booksky 🔎💀📚💙 #IcelandicNoir
@suekelsoryan.bsky.social
@suemetal.bsky.social @loopyk.bsky.social
@brownflopsy.bsky.social
@bethreadscrime.com
@lavieenprose.bsky.social to name but a few! #Booksky 🔎💀📚💙 #IcelandicNoir
Very excited to present first book in English by a new author from Iceland - Jón Atli Jónasson's Broken is now available for pre-order
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DVZFZ6Y7/
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DVZFZ6Y7/
Broken
Broken eBook : Jónasson, Jón Atli, Bates, Quentin: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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February 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Ooh all my #Iceland book buddies, you're going to want to get hold of this one! @angryalgonquin.bsky.social
@suekelsoryan.bsky.social
@suemetal.bsky.social @loopyk.bsky.social
@brownflopsy.bsky.social
@bethreadscrime.com
@lavieenprose.bsky.social to name but a few! #Booksky 🔎💀📚💙 #IcelandicNoir
@suekelsoryan.bsky.social
@suemetal.bsky.social @loopyk.bsky.social
@brownflopsy.bsky.social
@bethreadscrime.com
@lavieenprose.bsky.social to name but a few! #Booksky 🔎💀📚💙 #IcelandicNoir
Happy publication day to the fiery, unstoppable #StellaBlomkvist, now in her third adventure with us, translated by @graskeggur.bsky.social
www.amazon.co.uk/Murder-Tide-...
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July 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Happy birthday to Stella Blómkvist today, make her happy by getting your preorders in for #MurderTide now, out in July from @corylusbooks.bsky.social, tr. @graskeggur.bsky.social! #BookSky #Iceland #IcelandicNoir #NordicNoir
🔎💀📚💙
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Murder Tide by the inimitable @stellablomkvist.bsky.social will be out in July – and translator @graskeggur.bsky.social is already busy with the next one in the series, out in 2026, title TBC.
amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CFZM2BR3
As The Times said, 'Stella is a force of nature.’
amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CFZM2BR3
As The Times said, 'Stella is a force of nature.’
Stella Blómkvist
Visit Amazon's Stella Blómkvist page and shop for all Stella Blómkvist books. Check out pictures, author information and reviews of Stella Blómkvist
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June 19, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Happy birthday to Stella Blómkvist today, make her happy by getting your preorders in for #MurderTide now, out in July from @corylusbooks.bsky.social, tr. @graskeggur.bsky.social! #BookSky #Iceland #IcelandicNoir #NordicNoir
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If you like #IcelandicNoir, @hobeckbooks.bsky.social have had an #AwesomeFoursome of interviews with 3 @corylusbooks.bsky.social authors (Jónína Leosdottir, Jón Atli Jónasson & here, Sólveig Pálsdóttir) & their translator (& author himself!), @graskeggur.bsky.social! Give'em a listen & buy books! 💙📚
232: Ice and Crime - with Sólveig Pálsdóttir
The Hobcast Book Show · Episode
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August 16, 2025 at 11:33 AM
If you like #IcelandicNoir, @hobeckbooks.bsky.social have had an #AwesomeFoursome of interviews with 3 @corylusbooks.bsky.social authors (Jónína Leosdottir, Jón Atli Jónasson & here, Sólveig Pálsdóttir) & their translator (& author himself!), @graskeggur.bsky.social! Give'em a listen & buy books! 💙📚
Wúhú! My fave translator - he brought me my first #IcelandicNoir ( #Snowblind - look out for the fab 10yr anniv edition with gorgeous spredges AND bonus prequel #Fadeout!), and many, many since, including his own wonderful Gunnhildur series! Hours of pleasure thanks to Quentin & others like him! 🇮🇸💙📚
Quentin Bates escaped English suburbia as a teenager, jumping at the chance to spend a pre-university gap year working in the far wild west of Iceland, back in a pre-internet era before even fax machines. For a variety of reasons, the gap year turned into a gap decade, during which he went native,…
Quentin Bates – Translator Q&A
Quentin Bates escaped English suburbia as a teenager, jumping at the chance to spend a pre-university gap year working in the far wild west of Iceland, back in a pre-internet era before even fax machines. For a variety of reasons, the gap year turned into a gap decade, during which he went native, working as...
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September 20, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Wúhú! My fave translator - he brought me my first #IcelandicNoir ( #Snowblind - look out for the fab 10yr anniv edition with gorgeous spredges AND bonus prequel #Fadeout!), and many, many since, including his own wonderful Gunnhildur series! Hours of pleasure thanks to Quentin & others like him! 🇮🇸💙📚
Nice interview with Eliza Reid, covering growing up in Ottawa, meeting & marrying Guðni, being First Lady & then becoming a published & bestselling author herself with Secrets of the Sprakkar and Death Of A Diplomat (US: Death on the Island) #BookSky #Iceland
#whodunnit #IcelandicNoir #Canada
#whodunnit #IcelandicNoir #Canada
Eliza Reid on crafting her first mystery
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January 6, 2026 at 8:56 AM
Nice interview with Eliza Reid, covering growing up in Ottawa, meeting & marrying Guðni, being First Lady & then becoming a published & bestselling author herself with Secrets of the Sprakkar and Death Of A Diplomat (US: Death on the Island) #BookSky #Iceland
#whodunnit #IcelandicNoir #Canada
#whodunnit #IcelandicNoir #Canada
Look at this beauty 🤩 Ari Thór was my 1st ever #IcelandicNoir & I've never looked back - now #Snowblind is 10yrs old, like our visits to #Iceland 😊 When we did the Ring Road on our 2nd visit, we included a stop in Siglufjörður, so I could visit Ari Thór's police station! So excited for #Fadeout! 💙📚
❄️ Blizzard incoming...
Ari Thór is BACK & a killer is on the loose…
Celebrate 10 years of Ragnar Jonasson's #Snowblind with a stunning hardback, inc. the new #DarkIceland prequel #Fadeout & intro by Anthony Horowitz 😱
T Q Bates & L Kyzer
❄️ bit.ly/4kvDgER
#BookSky #Thriller #Books
Ari Thór is BACK & a killer is on the loose…
Celebrate 10 years of Ragnar Jonasson's #Snowblind with a stunning hardback, inc. the new #DarkIceland prequel #Fadeout & intro by Anthony Horowitz 😱
T Q Bates & L Kyzer
❄️ bit.ly/4kvDgER
#BookSky #Thriller #Books
September 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Look at this beauty 🤩 Ari Thór was my 1st ever #IcelandicNoir & I've never looked back - now #Snowblind is 10yrs old, like our visits to #Iceland 😊 When we did the Ring Road on our 2nd visit, we included a stop in Siglufjörður, so I could visit Ari Thór's police station! So excited for #Fadeout! 💙📚
There's only one thing I love more than a new book set in beloved #Iceland, and that's when said book comes with those magical words loaded with promise: 'first in a trilogy'! Don't miss #Broken, an exciting new voice in #IcelandicNoir from the fab team at @corylusbooks.bsky.social! #BookSky 🔎💀📚💙
Today sees the release of an original, new Nordic Noir. Broken by Jón Atli Jónasson is a breath of fresh air, with a female protagonist who will undoubtedly become readers' favourite.
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Broken | Jón Atli Jónasson
Translated by Quentin Bates— In Broken, the first instalment of a trilogy set in Iceland, Atli Jónasson introduces two new, flawed and multi-layered characters to the Nordic Noir landscape: Dóra an…
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June 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
There's only one thing I love more than a new book set in beloved #Iceland, and that's when said book comes with those magical words loaded with promise: 'first in a trilogy'! Don't miss #Broken, an exciting new voice in #IcelandicNoir from the fab team at @corylusbooks.bsky.social! #BookSky 🔎💀📚💙
🚨PSA: STELLA IS BRILLIANT!🚨
Get your mitts on these and thank me later!
#BookSky 🔎💀📚💙
#Iceland #IcelandicNoir #NordicNoir
Get your mitts on these and thank me later!
#BookSky 🔎💀📚💙
#Iceland #IcelandicNoir #NordicNoir
Welcome to the third Stella novel in our fold! Murder Tide will be out in July. Catch up on the first two in the series before then
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CFZM2BR3
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CFZM2BR3
Stella Blómkvist
Visit Amazon's Stella Blómkvist page and shop for all Stella Blómkvist books. Check out pictures, author information and reviews of Stella Blómkvist
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February 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
🚨PSA: STELLA IS BRILLIANT!🚨
Get your mitts on these and thank me later!
#BookSky 🔎💀📚💙
#Iceland #IcelandicNoir #NordicNoir
Get your mitts on these and thank me later!
#BookSky 🔎💀📚💙
#Iceland #IcelandicNoir #NordicNoir
Murder Tide by Stella Blomkvist
TR: Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social
#Icelandicnoir set in REYKJAVIK
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"..the setting in Iceland in ‘the noughties’ is very much a part of the story.."
#blueskybooks #booksky
@corylusbooks.bsky.social
TR: Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social
#Icelandicnoir set in REYKJAVIK
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"..the setting in Iceland in ‘the noughties’ is very much a part of the story.."
#blueskybooks #booksky
@corylusbooks.bsky.social
Noir crime novel set in REYKJAVIK - TripFiction
Murder Tide by Stella Blomkvist, noir crime novel set in Reykjavik. Translated by Quentin Bates Stella Blomkvist is both the author’s pen name and the
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July 31, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Murder Tide by Stella Blomkvist
TR: Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social
#Icelandicnoir set in REYKJAVIK
www.tripfiction.com/noir-crime-n...
"..the setting in Iceland in ‘the noughties’ is very much a part of the story.."
#blueskybooks #booksky
@corylusbooks.bsky.social
TR: Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social
#Icelandicnoir set in REYKJAVIK
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"..the setting in Iceland in ‘the noughties’ is very much a part of the story.."
#blueskybooks #booksky
@corylusbooks.bsky.social
Here's an #AwesomeFoursome for #BuyABookDay that'll also happily #SupportAnIndie! Preorder from @orendabooks.bsky.social Ragnar Jónasson (9/10)& @liljawriter.bsky.social (23/10) & if you need an #IcelandicNoir fix NOW @corylusbooks.bsky.social have you covered with #Broken & #MurderTide! 🇮🇸 #BookSky
September 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Here's an #AwesomeFoursome for #BuyABookDay that'll also happily #SupportAnIndie! Preorder from @orendabooks.bsky.social Ragnar Jónasson (9/10)& @liljawriter.bsky.social (23/10) & if you need an #IcelandicNoir fix NOW @corylusbooks.bsky.social have you covered with #Broken & #MurderTide! 🇮🇸 #BookSky
Welcome to my stop on the #BlogTour for #TheMurderPool by Stella Blomkvist - book four in the gripping #StellaBlomkvist series. Translated by @graskeggur.bsky.social #IcelandicNoir
Out now from @corylusbooks.bsky.social 💙📚
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Out now from @corylusbooks.bsky.social 💙📚
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The Murder Pool (Stella Blomkvist Book Four) by Stella Blómkvist
The Murder Pool (Stella Blómkvist Book Four) by Stella Blómkvist. Translated by Quentin Bates. Published 5th March 2026 by Corylus Books. ...
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March 10, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Welcome to my stop on the #BlogTour for #TheMurderPool by Stella Blomkvist - book four in the gripping #StellaBlomkvist series. Translated by @graskeggur.bsky.social #IcelandicNoir
Out now from @corylusbooks.bsky.social 💙📚
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Out now from @corylusbooks.bsky.social 💙📚
brownflopsy.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...
This was my first ever #IcelandicNoir book, started the addiction! I read it just before our 2nd visit to #Iceland in 2016 (we're off for #21 tomoz!) & as a result took a detour on our Ring Road trip to visit Siglufjörður, just so I could take a photo with the book outside the police station! 😂💙📚🇮🇸
A blizzard is coming... 👀❄️
It's been 10 years since #Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson T. Quentin Bates 😱
We should celebrate... And you could be a part of it! 🎉
If you want to be a part of the team to be the first to share this top secret news comment with a ❄️
#NordicNoir #Thriller #AriThor
It's been 10 years since #Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson T. Quentin Bates 😱
We should celebrate... And you could be a part of it! 🎉
If you want to be a part of the team to be the first to share this top secret news comment with a ❄️
#NordicNoir #Thriller #AriThor
May 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
This was my first ever #IcelandicNoir book, started the addiction! I read it just before our 2nd visit to #Iceland in 2016 (we're off for #21 tomoz!) & as a result took a detour on our Ring Road trip to visit Siglufjörður, just so I could take a photo with the book outside the police station! 😂💙📚🇮🇸
😍 It was our gateway drug to #IcelandicNoir too! Never turned back! Thank you for sharing, lovely! x
December 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
😍 It was our gateway drug to #IcelandicNoir too! Never turned back! Thank you for sharing, lovely! x
This latest from Eva Björg Ægisdóttir from @orendabooks.bsky.social, out on 10th Sept, and it's brilliant - Eva Björg goes from strength to strength and she's an automatic 'must read' for me! #IcelandicNoir 🇮🇸 #BookSky 🔎💀📚 #TheLastTenant
August 29, 2026 at 10:17 PM
This latest from Eva Björg Ægisdóttir from @orendabooks.bsky.social, out on 10th Sept, and it's brilliant - Eva Björg goes from strength to strength and she's an automatic 'must read' for me! #IcelandicNoir 🇮🇸 #BookSky 🔎💀📚 #TheLastTenant
Happy #publicationday to the magnificent #TheHotelManagersGuideToMurder, by new voice on the #IcelandicNoir scene, Erlendur Arason, tr. @graskeggur.bsky.social! Do you think you know everything? Torfi does, & it gets him into a whole heap of trouble at the plush Hotel Bristol in #Reykjavik! #BookSky
July 25, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Happy #publicationday to the magnificent #TheHotelManagersGuideToMurder, by new voice on the #IcelandicNoir scene, Erlendur Arason, tr. @graskeggur.bsky.social! Do you think you know everything? Torfi does, & it gets him into a whole heap of trouble at the plush Hotel Bristol in #Reykjavik! #BookSky
Some classics here if you're looking for an intro into #ScandiNoir / #NordicNoir / #IcelandicNoir, including from the excellent @liljawriter.bsky.social & the lovely @heidiamsinckwriter.bsky.social, both of whom I was lucky to spend time with at #IcelandNoir! 💙📚 🇮🇸
www.tripfiction.com/ten-great-sc...
www.tripfiction.com/ten-great-sc...
Ten Great SCANDINAVIAN Noir Stories - TripFiction
Ten great Scandinavian noir stories. Scandinavian Noir is characterised by a dark, morally complex tone, realistic police procedural elements, and a
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January 6, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Some classics here if you're looking for an intro into #ScandiNoir / #NordicNoir / #IcelandicNoir, including from the excellent @liljawriter.bsky.social & the lovely @heidiamsinckwriter.bsky.social, both of whom I was lucky to spend time with at #IcelandNoir! 💙📚 🇮🇸
www.tripfiction.com/ten-great-sc...
www.tripfiction.com/ten-great-sc...
Stella is STELLAR! These are such fun books, highly recommended if you like tangled mysteries and a takes-no-sh*t protagonist! And her latest novel, Murder Tide, is coming this summer from lovely indie @corylusbooks.bsky.social - pre-order now! #BookSky 🔎💀📚💙 #NordicNoir #IcelandicNoir #Iceland 🇮🇸
Murder mystery set in Reykjavik
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Murder Under the Midnight Sun by Stella Blómkvist
TR: Quentin Bates @graskeggur
"This is a book about power politics, about idealism and the links that connect seemingly unrelated events.."
@corylusbooks.bsky.social
#booksky
www.tripfiction.com/murder-myste...
Murder Under the Midnight Sun by Stella Blómkvist
TR: Quentin Bates @graskeggur
"This is a book about power politics, about idealism and the links that connect seemingly unrelated events.."
@corylusbooks.bsky.social
#booksky
Murder mystery set in REYKJAVIK - TripFiction
Murder Under the Midnight Sun by Stella Blómkvist, murder mystery set in Reykjavik. TR: Quentin Bates If you’re not already familiar with Stella
www.tripfiction.com
May 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Stella is STELLAR! These are such fun books, highly recommended if you like tangled mysteries and a takes-no-sh*t protagonist! And her latest novel, Murder Tide, is coming this summer from lovely indie @corylusbooks.bsky.social - pre-order now! #BookSky 🔎💀📚💙 #NordicNoir #IcelandicNoir #Iceland 🇮🇸
A subtle #SaturdayStairs in the Hotel Borg in Reykjavík, with a covert appearance from the brilliant new #IcelandicNoir book by #ErlendurArason, tr. @graskeggur.bsky.social - #TheHotelManagersGuideToMurder (I didn't quite have the nerve to ask the Manager to pose with it for me! 🤷🏼♀️) #BookSky #Iceland
August 15, 2026 at 7:30 PM
A subtle #SaturdayStairs in the Hotel Borg in Reykjavík, with a covert appearance from the brilliant new #IcelandicNoir book by #ErlendurArason, tr. @graskeggur.bsky.social - #TheHotelManagersGuideToMurder (I didn't quite have the nerve to ask the Manager to pose with it for me! 🤷🏼♀️) #BookSky #Iceland
How gorgeous a tome is this?! And the prequel #Fadeout is a great intro to #AriThór as well 🤩 If you're into #IcelandicNoir, Siglufjörður, #AgathaChristie -style locked room thrillers, Iceland, #FictionInTranslation or just having a bloody lovely looking book on your shelves - this one's for you! 💙📚
❄️ #AriThór is BACK!
The first new #DarkIceland #Mystery in 5 years arrives 23/10, celebrating 10 years of #RagnarJonasson's #Snowblind with a sprayed-edge hardback EXCLUSIVE to bookshops & @waterstones.bsky.social
✨ Includes the never-before-published prequel #Fadeout 😱
❄️ bit.ly/4kvDgER
#Books
The first new #DarkIceland #Mystery in 5 years arrives 23/10, celebrating 10 years of #RagnarJonasson's #Snowblind with a sprayed-edge hardback EXCLUSIVE to bookshops & @waterstones.bsky.social
✨ Includes the never-before-published prequel #Fadeout 😱
❄️ bit.ly/4kvDgER
#Books
October 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
How gorgeous a tome is this?! And the prequel #Fadeout is a great intro to #AriThór as well 🤩 If you're into #IcelandicNoir, Siglufjörður, #AgathaChristie -style locked room thrillers, Iceland, #FictionInTranslation or just having a bloody lovely looking book on your shelves - this one's for you! 💙📚
Another exciting release from @corylusbooks.bsky.social, tr. @graskeggur.bsky.social ! Check out the blog tour for A Lethal Legacy below! #Iceland #IcelandicNoir #BookSky 🔎💀📚💙 I have a name quirk that meant it took me a while to get the sisters straight in my head but once in I really enjoyed it! 🤩
Nothing has changed at Bjargarlækur for as long as anyone can remember – so are moves to bring change to this remote Icelandic farm a motive for murder?
Coming soon – rural darkness and intrigue from Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir
amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FMRSFTHX/
@graskeggur.bsky.social
Coming soon – rural darkness and intrigue from Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir
amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FMRSFTHX/
@graskeggur.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Another exciting release from @corylusbooks.bsky.social, tr. @graskeggur.bsky.social ! Check out the blog tour for A Lethal Legacy below! #Iceland #IcelandicNoir #BookSky 🔎💀📚💙 I have a name quirk that meant it took me a while to get the sisters straight in my head but once in I really enjoyed it! 🤩