“It is obvious. Whoever wrote the poem is experiencing a desperate inner struggle and might even have lost the will to live. This is an S.O.S.! But who sent it?”

Hronn finds a piece of paper with a very sad poem after a few schoolmates have been to her home to work on a class project. She sets out to find the person who wrote it and lend him, or her, a helping hand, but that is easier said than done. Five of Hronn’s classmates were at her house and she has no way of knowing which one of them left the piece of paper, deliberately or by chance.
Her twin-creep of a brother and her best friend also join the search. But their interest in the mystery soon wears thin, as they get engrossed in something totally different. A humorous thriller about depression and possible suicide.
Jonina Leosdottir’s novels for young adults have been extremely popular and she received an acknowledgement from IBBY for the trilogy that began with Kisses & Olives. A Matter of Life and Death is a lively and exciting story about a deadly serious matter that many people, sooner or later, encounter.