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    The Darkness: A Thriller
    The Darkness: A Thriller
    The Darkness: A Thriller
    Audiobook5 hours

    The Darkness: A Thriller

    Written by Ragnar Jónasson

    Narrated by Amanda Redman

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    "Narrator Amanda Redman gives an adept performance as she takes on the various characters in this Icelandic thriller." — AudioFile Magazine

    Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkness is an atmospheric thriller from Ragnar Jónasson, one of the most exciting names in Nordic Noir.

    The body of a young Russian woman washes up on an Icelandic shore. After a cursory investigation, the death is declared a suicide and the case is quietly closed.

    Over a year later Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir of the Reykjavík police is forced into early retirement at 64. She dreads the loneliness, and the memories of her dark past that threaten to come back to haunt her. But before she leaves she is given two weeks to solve a single cold case of her choice. She knows which one: the Russian woman whose hope for asylum ended on the dark, cold shore of an unfamiliar country. Soon Hulda discovers that another young woman vanished at the same time, and that no one is telling her the whole story. Even her colleagues in the police seem determined to put the brakes on her investigation. Meanwhile the clock is ticking.

    Hulda will find the killer, even if it means putting her own life in danger.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateOct 16, 2018
    ISBN9781250311665
    Author

    Ragnar Jónasson

    RAGNAR JÓNASSON is an international number one award-winning and bestselling author who has sold over four million books in thirty-six territories worldwide. He is the only Icelandic author to have entered the Wall Street Journal bestseller list. Jónasson was born in Reykjavik, where he also teaches copyright law at Reyk­javík University. He has previously worked on radio and television, including as a TV news reporter, and, since the age of seventeen, has translated fourteen of Agatha Christie’s novels into Icelandic. He is the co-founder of the Reykjavík internation­al crime writing festival Iceland Noir. His critically ac­claimed international bestseller The Darkness is soon to be a major CBS Studios TV series, starring Lena Olin as Hulda, directed by Lasse Hallstrom. Ragnar's novel, Outside, is in development as a feature film by Ridley Scott's production company.

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    • 1/5
      This is a very disappointing novel. When the plot unravels in the final chapters of a mystery with most of the key information only provided near the end, the author is cheating the reader. Where are the clues? Where is our chance to try to solve the crime?
      There is some good writing here, an unusual and intriguing main character and loving descriptions of Iceland. But ruined by lazy plotting.
    • 5/5
      Amazing character and atmosphere. Everything is set up nicely.
    • 5/5
      It has been awhile since I read Nordic Noir. This reminds me of everything I love about it. This is a fantastic book.
    • 2/5
      I probably would have liked it better if I had read it myself in the original language, instead of listening to the audiobook in English. I felt like the reader was in a hurry to get through the book and somehow that kept me from getting interested in the story. Also, it really annoyed me how the reader mispronounced basically every Icelandic name (person and place names). Couldn’t she have gotten some help with that?
    • 4/5
      Another great mystery from an Icelandic master. Narration is exceptional also.