The Dark Iceland Series: Snowblind : A Thriller (Series #1) (Paperback)

from JBreedlove

The read improved a 3rd of the way into the story. The fjord tow was well described. Didn't like the biographical sketches of the players. That should have played out through the story. Ari Thori was kind of whiny and his girlfriend finally took on some emotion in the last chapter which set-up th...

from kbranfield

Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson is an atmospheric police procedural set in an isolated small town in Iceland. This first installment in the Dark Iceland series is a bit of a slow burner, but the characters and the setting make it very easy to savor the unfolding story. A former philosophy and theol...

from quondame

Hardly a thriller, but a more complex tangle than seems anywhere likely for a small Icelandic town. Ari Thor bungles fairly believably for a young man on his first job, but puts pieces together eventually. And some problems aren't solved. Well paced and with a strong feeling of place and if the c...

from Hanneri

The book is set in Iceland. It is in a cold and isolated place. Nothing happens there. Except in the course of a couple of days two bodies are found. The newly arrived policeman Ari Thor is not sure he has made the right decision in leaving his girlfriend and Reykjavik behind. The town is small b...

from CarltonC

I really enjoyed this atmospheric and well plotted crime novel set in a snow bound northern Iceland. It was refreshing to read about a young detective, Ari Thor, his move from Iceland's capital, Reykjavik, to the small town of Siglufjörður in northern Iceland which has been in decline since the h...