A review by marco5599
The Darkness Knows by Arnaldur Indriðason

3.0

A cold case in cold Iceland and it left me cold too. Most of it anyway. Despite having three angles (the frozen body, a suspicious car accident and Konráð's personal history) the whole thing feels monotonous. Konráð talks to someone, gets a piece of information, which leads him to the next person, he has another conversation and, well, etc. There's little or no reason to be excited or even curious about anything, it just.. Unfolds, you know? Pretty devastating to the who-did-what aspect of the book. It does pick up some steam towards the end, one of the reason why I'm not giving up on this series yet, but the next Indriðason I'll pick, will be something different.