Rupture by Ragnar Jónasson
My ranking: 4 of 5 stars
3.5 stars
Rupture is e-book 4 of the Darkish Island collection of Icelandic thrillers.
The story options two crimes to unravel. The primary surrounds an unintentional poisoning greater than fifty years in the past close to a rural city on the north coast of Iceland. The second case occurs in modern-day Reykjavik, and each tales have a information reporter who acts as a hyperlink between the separate occasions.
There’s fairly a bit to get your head round on this e-book and the narrative goes forwards and backwards between the instances in addition to a couple of different side-lines to distract the reader. That is the primary e-book that I’ve learn by this writer and it took some time to juggle all of the characters in my head.
I favored the setting with its harsh chilly and lengthy days of darkish, with an ‘fringe of the world’ really feel. Nevertheless, I struggled with a few of the characters; by not beginning at first of the collection, I’ve missed out on a few of their background particulars which could have helped me create higher photographs in my head.
I’m now trying ahead to studying extra books on this collection.
Guide Description:
1955. Two younger {couples} transfer to the uninhabited, remoted fjord of Hedinsfjörður. Their keep ends abruptly when one of many girls meets her demise in mysterious circumstances. The case isn’t solved. Fifty years later an outdated {photograph} involves mild, and it turns into clear that the {couples} could not have been alone on the fjord in any case…
In close by Siglufjörður, younger policeman Ari Thór tries to piece collectively what actually occurred that fateful evening, in a city the place nobody desires to know, the place secrets and techniques are a lifestyle. He’s assisted by Ísrún, a information reporter in Reykjavik, who’s investigating an more and more chilling case of her personal. Issues take a sinister flip when a toddler goes lacking in broad daylight. With a stalker on the free, and the city of Siglufjörður in quarantine, the previous would possibly simply come again to hang-out them.
