A review by freemti
Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson

3.0

Overall I liked it, it had the familiar sparse style of other nordi-crime fiction, although I'm thinking some of that might be the lost in translation factor. The array of characters (suspects?) were varied and interesting, the setting was well described and formed part of the atmosphere of the book as our newly minted policeman struggles to find his place in it. I did have some issue with how he handled the change of scenes at the chapter breaks - they seemed very abrupt, you were reading some segment of the story, some plot element with character X and then it would just stop and you'd be off to the next chapter. It just seemed kind of abrupt and I felt he wasn't done describing what he was in the middle of although I imagine it was intentional and not that they forget some pages at the publisher.

I'll probably read his other novel, but unless that really pulls me in I may stick with some other authors for my Nordi-Crime reading menu, like Arnaldur Irridsson or Hakan Nesser.