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Well, that was not what I expected. I’ve been looking for a mystery series to read and it looks like I’ve finally found one. What first intrigued me about this book was that it took place in Iceland. I don’t know a whole lot about that area and I enjoyed how the author incorporated some of that ...
"The Island" was a deeply satisfying read. The writing is sparse but confident, delivering movement between multiple points of view and backwards and forwards across multiple timelines so seamlessly that there is never any confusion, only a growing sense of tension as the plot is revealed. ...
This series has an interesting format in that it’s written in reverse order. Book #1 (The Darkness) gave us Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir at the end of her career with the Reykjavík police. In this outing we go back a bit to 1997 as she investigates a suspicious death on the island of Ell...
The Island" falls into a category of books loosely referred to as Scandinavian noir. Set in Iceland the volcanic landscape and frozen polar conditions adds an eerie silent and unpredictable element to the events as they unfold...."What the scenery lacked in drama it made up for in its all encompassi...
"The Darkness" is original, compelling, unforgiving and completely believable. This is Scandi-Noir at its best. I passed on Ragnar Jonasson's Dark Iceland series after reading "Snowblind". I found the detective too bland and the plot too much of a stretch. His new series, "Hidden Iceland" fixes ...