It sometimes feels as if everyone in Iceland is writing crime novels but the first appearance of Ragnar Jonasson in English translation (itself a fluid adaptation by British mystery writer Quentin Bates) is cause for celebration. Previously known as a major Agatha Christie translator, he brings that experience to bear on the clever way he weaves the intricacy of small village activities into life, with a slightly darker hue, in his dead Iceland series of which this is the first to be issued here.
Ari Thor Arason is a young policeman on his first out of city posting, in a small fishing village in Northern Iceland accessible only by a tunnel. When murder hits the small knit community, Ari, a fish out of water, pining for his distant girlfriend, has to summon his inner fibre and unthread the complex strands of the enquiry amongst a bout of harsh weather that is as much a character in the book as the village's inhabitants. First class classic detection with a frozen twist. ~ Maxim Jakubowski
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FIRST IN THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING DARK ICELAND SERIESOVER A MILLION COPIES SOLDA murder takes place in the isolated Icelandic town of Siglufjrur, where an avalanche has cut off all communication and the unrelenting snow threatens rookie police officer Ari Thr Arason first investigationA modern Icelandic take on an Agatha Christie-style mystery, as twisty as any slalom Ian Rankin'Ragnar Jnasson writes with a chilling, poetic beauty' Peter James'Seductive Ragnar does claustrophobia beautifully' Ann Cleeves________________Siglufjrur: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors - accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Ari Thr Arason: a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavik - with a past that he's unable to leave behind.
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Snowblind was written by Ragnar Jonasson and published by Orenda Books
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