Publisher: Orenda Books
Publication Date: 20th June 2024
Genre: Nordic Noir
Summary:
Fresh from maternity leave, Detective Elma finds herself confronted with a complex case, when a man is found murdered in a holiday cottage in the depths of the Icelandic countryside – the victim of a frenzied knife attack, with a shocking message scrawled on the wall above him.
At home with their baby daughter, Sævar is finding it hard to let go of work, until the chance discovery in a discarded box provides him with a distraction. Could the diary of a young boy, detailing the events of a long-ago summer have a bearing on Elma’s case?
Once again, the team at West Iceland CID have to contend with local secrets in the small town of Akranes, where someone has a vested interest in preventing the truth from coming to light. And Sævar has secrets of his own that threaten to destroy his and Elma’s newfound happiness.
At home with their baby daughter, Sævar is finding it hard to let go of work, until the chance discovery in a discarded box provides him with a distraction. Could the diary of a young boy, detailing the events of a long-ago summer have a bearing on Elma’s case?
Once again, the team at West Iceland CID have to contend with local secrets in the small town of Akranes, where someone has a vested interest in preventing the truth from coming to light. And Sævar has secrets of his own that threaten to destroy his and Elma’s newfound happiness.
Review:
Firstly thank you to Random Things Blog Tours, Orenda books and Eva Björg Ægisdóttir for having me on this tour and sending me a copy of the book.
Firstly thank you to Random Things Blog Tours, Orenda books and Eva Björg Ægisdóttir for having me on this tour and sending me a copy of the book.
I absolutely love Nordic Noir and I truly think Scandinavian crime writers write the best crime fiction because they always take me til about 50 pages before the end before I think I'm 100% sure who the killer is, they just keep me guessing and intrigued from start to finish far more than most other authors. This is my first in the Fobbiden Iceland series and Eva Björg Ægisdóttir is a new author to me but I can defiantly tell you it won't be my last (the previous four books have magically ended up in my shopping basket) because I've adored her writing style like I said I have been kept intrigued the whole way through the book, the various threads of the case entangling with what Saevar finds was so brilliant to follow. I liked that we heard from different characters' points of view throughout the book, mostly we hear from Elma and Saevar but it was good to hear from their boss, Hordur, too and I really enjoyed the back-and-forth between the different time periods(before and after the murder and back to 1995) it both rounded out our information and at the same time gave nothing away, I spent most of the book wondering what was on the video camera tape for instance because we got glimpses of it being filmed or it being watched but never a full picture until almost the end. It really heightened my need to keep reading the book so I could find out what happened and I really loved that. I'm going to have to stop reviewing now before I give anything away because I really do want people to go out and read this for themselves, it's a fantastic book both in terms of its storyline and its writing style and if you love a bit of crime this should definitely be on your reading list this year.
Krystina xx
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