This debut by Indriðason is a fast-paced thriller with a an interesting plot involving genetics. Unfortunately, for the rating of this book, I had just read Tom Franklin's Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, which is downright exceptional. In other words, Jar City's rating may have been four stars, if I...
This is def. a new Scandanavian author for me! His works aren't as enthralling as Fossum or Nessar to me, but man are they good. Expect this author to also be a bit more on the darker side, as well. Probably closer to Steig Larsson than the other two I mentioned. I will def. be seeking more out by h...
Bleak landscape, bleak characters, bleak story. Icelandic murders are simple ones usually insists Inspector Erlendur. This one is certainly not. An elderly man, Holberg, is found dead in his apartment with a strange note left on the body. The case then leads in a variety of directions: to a young...
Rating: 3 bleak * of fiveIt's hard for me to believe this is a debut novel. The author is, of course, a journalist and so the possessor of writerly skills; still, a novel is something wholly and entirely other than what he could be expected to do in his sleep.I think the first-novel-ishness comes ou...
This is an amazingly dark and desperate mystery novel. Set in Iceland, in mid late fall, when the days are short and humid and full of desperation. Erlendur ends up investigating the murder of an old, vicious man who might have raped countless of women. This book is about hiding from the past and th...
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