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Review: My Soul to Take by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
The second novel to feature Icelandic lawyer Thóra Gudmundsdóttir opens with a chilling prologue from 1945 in which a young child appears is locked in some kind of cellar. The story proper takes place...
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Review: Where the Shadows Lie by Michael Ridpath
I have my reading fairy godmother to thank for my copy of this book and even though Ridpath is not a native Iclelander I am counting the book towards the Nordic Reading challenge as it takes place in...
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Review: 66° NORTH by Michael Ridpath
In early 2009 many of Iceland’s residents took to the Reykjavik streets to protest their government’s response to the country’s deep financial crisis and this real-world event forms the backdrop for...
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Review: BLACK SKIES by Arnaldur Indriðason
Having complained at length about authors who persist in producing the same book over and over again I applaud Arnaldur Indriðason’s willingness to experiment by allowing different protagonists to...
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Review: BURIAL RITES by Hannah Kent
Hannah Kent was a teenage exchange student from Australia when she first heard about Agnes Magnusdottir, the last person to be executed in Iceland (in 1829). A decade long obsession with the woman has...
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Review: SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
I know it’s not the normal way of doing things but I feel the need to talk first about a couple of things SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME isn’t. For a few days now I’ve been staring at the bright red balloon...
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Review: THE SILENCE OF THE SEA by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
A luxury yacht crashes into Rekyavik Harbour one night without a soul on board and no immediate signs of foul play; the three-man crew and family of four who were travelling home from Portugal are...
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Review: WHY DID YOU LIE? by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
The multiple-threads-without-obvious-connection novels are coming thick and fast these days but few are as skillfully realised as Yrsa Sigurdardottir’s standalone novel WHY DID YOU LIE? There are three...
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Review: THE LEGACY by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Although I very much enjoy her best-known series featuring lawyer-turned-amateur-sleuth Thora Gudmundsdottir, I love the fact that Yrsa Sigurdardottir (and her publishers) have regularly taken the...
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Review: SNOWBLIND by Ragnar Jonasson
I was not surprised to learn, after I’d finished reading SNOWBLIND, that its author has previously translated some of Agatha Christie’s works into his native Icelandic. Because there’s much more of a...
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