Books by Quentin Bates
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review 1: I actually liked this book a lot better than the first in the series. The author is better at weaving the complex lives of the characters together against the backdrop of Iceland's economic collapse. We get to know Gunna better, and he's stopped hitting us over the head with ph...
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review 1: Het eerste deel van een serie kent een wat aarzelend begin. We maken kennis met Gunna die samen met een team in een klein dorp waar normaal niks gebeurd met een moord te maken krijgt, tenminste daar gaan alle aanwijzingen naar uit. Het begin is dan ook zeker even doorbijten, maar...
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review 1: I enjoyed every moment of this book. The mystery was complex enough to be interesting, and the characters were believable and delightful, plus the heroine had a sense of humor. The only problem was the names - each character seemed to have at least 3 names, all of which had 3 s...
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review 1: Cold Comfort features Gunnhildur “Gunna” Gisladottir, a police detective at Reykjavík’s Serious Crime Unit, in post-economic meltdown Iceland. Gisladottir and her team are tracking down a violent prison escapee and trying to solve the murder of a fitness expert/call girl with som...
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review 1: I won this book for free from the Goodreads Book Giveaway contest and really enjoyed it! I was especially intrigued by this novel because I lived in Keflavik for 2 years and was happy to "visit" some of my old stomping grounds again. I enjoyed the mystery surrounding the charac...