I decided to read Snowblind mainly because it is a mystery which takes place in Iceland. My daughter recently spent about 10 days there and really enjoyed it. In fact, she even briefly visited the small town where this novel takes place, Siglufjörður, at the far north of the island.
I was pleasantly surprised by the novel. It turned out to be a pretty good mystery with several unexpected outcomes. The protagonist of the novel, Ari Thor, is a young man who recently graduated from police school and decides to take a posting at the small town of Siglufjörður where nothing ever happens according to his boss. He leaves Reykjavik and his girlfriend behind, thinking he will only be there a couple of years at most. His move takes place in December during the coldest and darkest part of the Icelandic winter and Ari feels somewhat claustrophobic being there -- shut in by the mountains and the darkness. Not soon after he arrives, a woman is found in the snow bleeding to death with a knife wound. And then, one of the more prominent residents of the city dies in a fall at the local theater where he was involved in a play production. The woman's husband seems to be a suspect in her stabbing but he also has a good alibi. And was the fall at the theater an accident or was he pushed? Ari has some really good instincts and eventually puts a theory together on both deaths. He also falls for a local woman there so he must decide whether to call off his relationship with his girlfriend who he left in Reykjavik.
Overall, I enjoyed this one and may seek out the other novels in the series.
I was pleasantly surprised by the novel. It turned out to be a pretty good mystery with several unexpected outcomes. The protagonist of the novel, Ari Thor, is a young man who recently graduated from police school and decides to take a posting at the small town of Siglufjörður where nothing ever happens according to his boss. He leaves Reykjavik and his girlfriend behind, thinking he will only be there a couple of years at most. His move takes place in December during the coldest and darkest part of the Icelandic winter and Ari feels somewhat claustrophobic being there -- shut in by the mountains and the darkness. Not soon after he arrives, a woman is found in the snow bleeding to death with a knife wound. And then, one of the more prominent residents of the city dies in a fall at the local theater where he was involved in a play production. The woman's husband seems to be a suspect in her stabbing but he also has a good alibi. And was the fall at the theater an accident or was he pushed? Ari has some really good instincts and eventually puts a theory together on both deaths. He also falls for a local woman there so he must decide whether to call off his relationship with his girlfriend who he left in Reykjavik.
Overall, I enjoyed this one and may seek out the other novels in the series.
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