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Snowblind
by Ragnar Jónasson
I enjoyed this book a lot. I love mysteries and thrillers, but this one was quite different from what I have read before. It was slower than I expected a thriller to be, but as I read it felt myself getting more tense and sucked into the book. The setting was perfect to set up a dark crime drama in a small town. I felt even myself get claustrophobic as times (like the MC) as the snow fell, the routes out were obstructed, and it seemed dark all the time. This was due to the very skillfully constructed and described setting in northern Iceland. It comforted me that the MC was not used to the weather either and I felt like we were learning to cope with it together. The plot was interested and timed very well, but the gold stars were the characters. Each as mysterious and intricately pieced together as the next. It's been a long time since I read such interesting characters with the perfect balance of details and mystique. I just loved how this story was put together into the perfect crime novel and I cannot wait to return to this snowy dark Icelandic town for more crime drama. I can't believe this was a translated book because the prose and the flow of the story were spot on.