Nightblind A thriller

Ragnar Jónasson, 1976-

Book - 2017

"Ari Thór Arason is a local policeman, who has an uneasy relationships with the villagers in an idyllically quiet fishing village in northern Iceland--where no one locks their doors. The peace of this close-knit community is shattered by a murder. The peace of this close-knit community is shattered by a murder. One of Ari's colleagues is gunned down at point-blank range in the dead of night in a deserted house. With a killer on the loose and the dark Arctic waters closing in, it falls to Ari Thor to piece together a puzzle that involves a new mayor and a psychiatric ward in Reykjavik. It becomes all too clear that tragic events from the past are weaving a sinister spell that may threaten them all."--

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Subjects
Genres
Psychological fiction
Thrillers (Fiction)
Suspense fiction
Published
New York : Minotaur Books 2017.
Language
English
Icelandic
Main Author
Ragnar Jónasson, 1976- (author)
Other Authors
Quentin Bates (translator)
Edition
First U.S. edition
Item Description
"A Thomas Dunne Book."
Physical Description
213 pages : maps ; 25 cm
ISBN
9781250096098
Contents unavailable.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Set five years after the action of Snowblind, Jónasson's excellent second thriller featuring Ari Thór Arason to be published in the U.S. finds Ari Thór passed over for the position of inspector in the small Icelandic town of Siglufjördur, a setback mitigated by his reunion with his girlfriend, Kristín, and the birth of their son, Stefnir. When Herjólfur, the man who got the inspector's position, dies after being blasted at close range by a shotgun near an abandoned house, Ari Thór's former superior, Tómas, oversees the investigation. Ari Thór and Tómas step on some powerful toes as they follow leads pointing to the town's mayor, Gunnar Gunnarsson; phone records show that Herjólfur called Gunnarsson late at night shortly before the attack. The mayor's claim that the conversation was about traffic strikes the pair as implausible. Ari Thór soon begins to feel like a "stranger in a place where everyone was connected and no one could be trusted completely." Jónasson plants clues fairly before a devastatingly unexpected reveal, without sublimating characterization to plot. Agent: David Headley, DHH Literary Agency (U.K.). (Dec.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Review by Kirkus Book Review

A second case looms for Ari Thr Arason, half the police force of the north Icelandic town of Siglufjrdur, when the other half gets shot in an abandoned house.Nothing much has happened in the house near the entrance to the Strkar tunnel since 1961, when one of the twins living there took a fatal header from its balcony. And Inspector Herjlfur, a recent arrival to the community, wouldn't even be investigating the report of someone seen inside if Ari Thr weren't down with the flu. As it is, his patrol ends abruptly with a shotgun blast that sends him to the hospital, hovering between life and death. Will it also send Ari Thr, who campaigned unsuccessfully for the position of inspector, into Herjlfur's place? Not a chance. Instead, the powers that be summon Tmas, the boss who preceded Herjlfur, back from Reykjavk to take charge of the case. So Tmas is also on hand when an even more recent arrival is stabbed to death. To Ari Thr's chagrin, his old chief insinuates himself into this case as well. It looks as if the eternal second fiddle (Snowblind, 2017) will have enough time on his hands to take care of his son, Stefnir, who's almost a year old, when his physician wife, Kristn, accedes to the local hospital's pleas that she return to her job. Maybe Ari Thr will even have the leisure to notice that corruption threatens the local political establishment and that Kristn is thinking seriously of leaving him. The plotting is rudimentary, but the final surprise carries a real shock; the excerpts from a 1982 diary pack a punch of their own; and of course the advent of the Icelandic winter is likely to chill hearts even below the Arctic Circle. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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