SiglufjördurIt is a small town that was for decades a former herring fishing port, accessible only by an old tunnel. 1940 And 1950. After that 1970 The herring fishery is declining, causing the town to almost disappear; A small town where everyone trusts everyone else, the doors are never locked, and nothing probably happens… until the new police inspector is killed in the cold. In the middle of a wind- and rain-torn polar night, blood in a house on the outskirts of the city, where a tragedy had previously occurred and which is today deserted and used for retail.
This incident causes unrest among the town’s residents and the police force. Friend of the deceased, Ari ThorThe man, who is actually on sick leave with the flu and needs to be shot, confronts the mystery together with another former colleague. thomasincoming Reykjavik.
The setting of this mystery, detective novel is a town where everyone knows each other and everyone is connected to each other, so much so that it turns into a wonderful cage where the clue game begins from the moment you start reading. False clues do their own thing due to the nature of the place, a notebook that speaks to us like a voice. mental problems and who will give us the name of the murderer, creates the environment for Ragnar’s slow style to lead us to the conclusion. It is not a book with a shrill or expansive tone, but a book consistent in movement, with a slow but resounding cadence like the coming of the polar night and with it the harsh winter of a city no less. 46 kilometers for the polar circle.
Under these facilities there are big problems such as mental health, gender violence and influence peddling, which somehow places the novel in the real moment and updated with the problems of any society.
- Ragnar Jonasson
- The silenced truth
- Editorial: Six Barrals
- Translation: Kristinn R. Ólafsson Alda Ólafsson Álvarez
- Price: 19.50 €
Thus, Ragnar Jónasson showed once again that his style is already a classic. At the age of seventeen he began translating Agatha Christie into Icelandic and The Shadow of Fear.Six Barrels) began his journey with the first novel of Black Iceland, where we are in Siglufjördur with Ari, and now we experience loneliness and cold, darkness, nature and nature once again with the penultimate novel of the saga. The harshness of it, the perspective of the hero, his calmness despite the storms within him, and how the innocent Ari develops and grows into someone more cynical, more suspicious than others. Ragnar also becomes sensitive, and this is not the first time he reveals in his texts the reality of violence in the home or even the amount of guns per capita in Iceland.
Recommended novel for those who want to get to know the original Scandinavian detective novel and examine it in depth. great rivers of blood and the color red touches on the big problems of society, social issues and is where the author examines the characters in depth. Although it is not necessary to read the previous books in the saga to enjoy this saga, it does provide a more complete vision of the character, the work, and of course the author in its entirety.