Frank H. (perryfran) reviewed on 12/10/2020 + 1181 more book reviews

This is the second book in Jonasson's Dark Iceland series. I read the first book, SNOWBLIND, a couple of years ago and enjoyed it most of all for its setting in a small town in northern Iceland, Siglufjörður. This followup to Snowblind takes place 5 years later and the protagonist of the first book, Ari Thor, is now a police officer there. But then his boss, Herjolfur, is killed by a shotgun blast when he goes to an abandoned house in the middle of the night to investigate some possible drug deals. So Ari, along with his former boss, Tomas, who is called up from Reykjavik, are tasked with the investigation into Herjolfur's murder. The obvious suspects would be the people dealing in drugs from the abandoned house. But is this what really happened?

I didn't enjoy this one as much as I did the first novel, Snowblind. Although Nightblind was set in the same location, I don't think it really gave a good feel for the environment of Iceland. The novel did discuss how many people feel that Iceland is one of the safest places to live on Earth. The shotgun death of the police inspector was the first death by gunfire that anyone could remember. But then other forms of violence come into the story including spousal abuse which make Iceland just as vulnerable to violence as most other locations. Overall, I thought the story was only mildly interesting.

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