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Jar City - Arnaldur Indriðason
Jar City
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Format: ebook
ISBN: 9781407052991 (1407052993)
Publisher: Vintage Digital
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Series: Reykjavík Murder Mystery (#3)
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Community Reviews
sensitivemuse
sensitivemuse rated it
4.0 Great plot, and the mood of the story was excellent!
What made this book enjoyable was how such an intricate web was spun throughout the novel giving the reader enough interest to keep reading. I was not sure what to expect from this book. Although I’ve heard good things about it I didn’t think I would be so engrossed and be flying through the pages t...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
5.0 Tainted Blood by Arnaldur Indridason (Reykjavík Murder Mystery #3)
bookshelves: teh-brillianz, published-2000, mystery-thriller, iceland Read on November 14, 2010 Also known as Jar City, which is the name of the filmThe film before the book - okay, I'll reprimand myself later! A man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat. There are no obvious clues apart fr...
Aki's B'ook'log
Aki's B'ook'log rated it
3.0 Jar City
Decent police procedural, good characterization and plot. Author uses the Icelandic location to create an almost noirish feel - very atmospheric, though the book lacks tension.
Emamemi
Emamemi rated it
I've taken an interest to Iceland ever since I read Halldór Laxness. Seeing there are a few Icelandic authors in translation - or maybe they are indeed just a few - I wanted to explore this country through the detective novels of Arnaldur Indriðason, as well. Luckily, he gives some interesting insig...
jmills01
jmills01 rated it
4.0 Jar City: A Thriller
I'm not precisely certain that I like Arnaldur Indriðason's Icelandic mysteries, but I certainly can't stop reading them! I enjoy the Icelandic setting, which feels very different from what I'm used to in the US (or in the British mysteries that I love.) Like many European novelists, Indriðason se...
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