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This is a tale of loss, revenge and murder set against the <\/span>very prominent <\/span>harshness of an Icelandic winter. I felt that Indridason managed to sustain a certain air of suspense throughout the book, with the reader knowing vaguely what may have happened but not exactly why or how. However, that said, I also felt that much of the story was built on a mixture of co<\/span>–<\/span>incidence and <\/span>the, at times, extremely strange <\/span>actions <\/span>of<\/span>the main character, Erlendur<\/span>,<\/span>which, in any normal situation, would have been considered bizarrely outside the law.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Although descriptions of the harsh landscape and even the characters themselves <\/span>a<\/span>re well-rounded, giving a good background to the story, Erlendur’s obsessive <\/span>concentration on things that ha<\/span>ve<\/span>absolutely nothing to do with him <\/span>i<\/span>s, at times, quite disturbing. The ending, though vaguely hint<\/span>ed<\/span>at in the beginning of the book, <\/span>i<\/span>s, I felt, slightly out of sync with the book as a whole. Easy to read. Something to fill the gap between more challenging books.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Indridason, a writer of Scandinavian Crime Fiction, is from Iceland, and he wrote this book (in direct translation: The Cold Fire) in 2010. Although the book has been translated to Swedish, I have not yet found any reference to an English translation (although many of Indridason’s earlier books have already been translated). When the book … <\/p>\n