***Spoilers you have been warned*** I loved Jar City because of the dark bleak mood setting that’s described in Erlandur’s world. This one proves to be just the same. Coupled with a well written mystery that goes back into the past, this one lived up to the previous. The book goes back and forth...
When I was a teenager, I was a big fan of detective novels, to the effect that I was contemplating the possibility of joining the Police force. I was even conducting my own investigations. When I was around 14, I liked a boy from church who was older than me. I found out his name, where he lived, th...
In this book everything is extremely awful all the time except very very rarely when it slightly isn't. A cold case mystery set in Reykjavik, it unfolds at a nice, brisk pace. The characterizations too sometimes seem almost blunt, laid out in this kind of stripped, businesslike manner. The prose is ...
This is the second in a series that begins with Jar City, a novel I enjoyed.This book has one of the creepiest opening scenes. A young man picking up his brother at a friends birthday party notices the friend's little sister chewing on something. As a medical student just having been through numer...
An excellent book - carefully structured, with deep and rich characters -- for much of this, I wasn't sure if I liked it as much as I did Jar City; but in the final analysis, it was much richer. I can certainly understand the praise now for Arnaldur.
"Dech smrti" When a skeleton is discovered half-buried in a construction site outside of Reykjavík, Inspector Erlendur finds himself knee-deep in both a crime scene and an archeological dig. Bone by bone, the body is unearthed, and the brutalizing history of a family who lived near the building site...
Another winner for Indrioason. This book gives a deeper understanding of the main character, DI Erlander, while he tries to solve the mystery of aged skeletal remains. This is a series that I am determining must be read in order because Indrioason goes deep into the psyche of his main character...bu...
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