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Afturelding (2005)

by Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

9979327324 (ISBN13: 9789979327325)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Mál og menning

review 1: I love a good mystery/crime book. It is always interesting to read a European based book once in a while to really contrast with the American approach.Daybreak is set in Iceland, there is a killer on the loose. He is killing goose hunters. It is up to Birkir and Gunnar of Reykjavik’s Violent Crime Unit to stop the serial killer. Despite the fact that they are both loners and foreigners, you could not find a pair of detectives so different from one another, who still get along as well as Birkir and Gunnar. Iceland is really the only home that they have ever known.Ingolfsson has told an excellent who-done-it. I was guessing right up until the very end. What was different about Daybreak is that it is not only about one detective and his partner, both Birkir and Gunnar... more share equal billing. The crime was gruesome and violent (bonus!), the suspect and twist were unexpected and the cast of characters allowed for some great comic relief.This was my first Ingolfsson book. While I can see the obvious comparisons to Larsson and Adler-Olsen (all dark crime books set in Northern Europe), Ingolfsson has his own unique presentation which sets him on his own.If you like dark crime stories, you need to read Daybreak!
review 2: I was listening to NPR around the same time that everyone on the planet, including me, was reading The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy when the commentator mentioned the Martin Beck series of Scandinavian novels (collectively known as The Story of Crime). I was interested, picked up the first book and immediately -- and obsessively -- devoured the whole lot of them, packing each one up and sending it off to my folks as soon as I finished them: a vote of high confidence in my world. Why am I mentioning this now? Honestly, it was my previous good experience with that series and my American tendency to lump Iceland in with the Scandinavian countries that led to me picking up Daybreak in the first place. Although Daybreak was not the best crime novel I've ever read, I did track down a second book by this author. There is an interesting window into a society to be seen through the pages of a crime novel -- the glimpse was enough to make me look for more. less

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