Nightblind by Ragnar Jónasson
My score: 4 of 5 stars
Evening Blind is ebook #5 within the Darkish Iceland sequence of crime fiction tales.
The story opens with a capturing—that of a policeman—and Ari Thór Arason, at dwelling in mattress with flu, realises how simply it may have been him that was shot whereas on responsibility.
For the reason that new tunnel opened up the highway to the sleepy city on the northern shores of Iceland, crime circumstances have risen. Medicine are suspected on this case, however there are a number of characters behaving oddly. Intermingled with the story are letters written by a affected person in a psychiatric hospital, and because the story progresses the significance of those letters is revealed.
Stuffed with chilly darkish environment, it is a gradual burner story that displays very a lot the setting and the individuals who dwell there.
Guide Description:
Siglufjörður: an idyllically quiet fishing village on the northernmost tip of Iceland, accessible solely by way of a small mountain tunnel. Ari Thór Arason: an area policeman, whose tumultuous previous and uneasy relationships with the villagers proceed to hang-out him. The peace of this close-knit neighborhood is shattered by the homicide of a policeman – shot at point-blank vary at the hours of darkness in a abandoned home. With a killer on the unfastened and the darkish arctic winter closing in, it falls to Ari Thór to piece collectively a puzzle that entails tangled native politics, a compromised new mayor, and a psychiatric ward in Reykjavik, the place somebody is being held in opposition to their will. Then a mysterious younger lady strikes to the world, on the run from one thing she dare not reveal, and it turns into all too clear that tragic occasions from the previous are weaving a sinister spell which will threaten all of them.
Darkish, chilling and complicated, Nightblind is a rare thriller from an plain new expertise.