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When the body of a nineteen-year-old girl is found on the main street of Siglufjoerdur, Police Inspector Ari Thor battles a violent Icelandic storm in an increasingly dangerous hunt for her killer ... The chilling, claustrophobic finale to the international bestselling Dark Iceland series.

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Publisher : Orenda Books (21 January 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 240 pages
ISBN-10 : 1913193446
ISBN-13 : 978-1913193447
Dimensions : 19.7 x 2.2 x 12.9 cm

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Icelandic crime writer Ragnar Jónasson was born in Reykjavík, and currently works as a lawyer, while teaching copyright law at the Reykjavík University Law School. In the past, he’s worked in TV and radio, including as a news reporter for the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service. Before embarking on a writing career, Ragnar translated fourteen Agatha Christie novels into Icelandic, and has had several short stories published in German, English and Icelandic literary magazines. Ragnar set up the first overseas chapter of the CWA (Crime Writers’ Association) in Reykjavík, and is co-founder of the International crime-writing festival Iceland Noir. Ragnar’s debut thriller, Snowblind became an almost instant bestseller when it was published in June 2015 with Nightblind (winner of the Dead Good Reads Most Captivating Crime in Translation Award) and then Blackout and Rupture following soon after. To date, Ragnar Jónasson has written five novels in the Dark Iceland series, which has been optioned for TV by On the Corner. He lives in Reykjavík with his wife and two daughters. Visit him on Twitter @ragnarjo or at ragnarjonasson.com

David Warner translates from French and nurtures a healthy passion for Franco, Nordic and British crime fiction. Growing up in deepest Yorkshire, he developed incurable Francophilia at an early age. Emerging from Oxford with a Modern Languages degree he narrowly escaped the graduate rat race by hopping on a plane to Canada – and never looked back. More than a decade into a high-powered commercial translation career, he listened to his heart and turned his hand to the delicate art of literary translation. David has lived in France and Quebec, and now calls beautiful British Columbia home.
Follow David on Twitter @givemeawave and on his website wtranslation.ca

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alan riles

A bit disappointing

Reviewed in Australia on 18 January 2021

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I have been a fan of Ragnar's Dark Iceland series and especially its setting in far north Iceland but have previously observed that the quality is variable. This last is a clunky contrived closure that tries too hard somehow to close the gap while he wrote the Hidden Iceland trilogy (brilliant by the way). Pity.

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A good book to cosy up with

Reviewed in Australia on 1 January 2021

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I love all this author's books. I love the plots-they always keep us guessing. The characters are real - their self doubts and vulnerability remind us of ourselves.

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Cold hearted crimes

Reviewed in Australia on 1 January 2021

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Ragnar continues his excellent series with another well written story with an interesting plot.

A possible suicide of a young girl opens a can of worms that draws in other darkness. Ari Thor is now inspector and has an eager young offsider. He also has a visit from Kristen and his son. But what as bout about a casual meeting with his local possible girlfriend.

A quick read that keeps the interest because it sticks to the story.

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Spicewalker

A fitting way to say goodbye Ari Thór and Siglufjörður

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 December 2020

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There is something comforting about being back in Siglufjörður and back in the world of Ari Thór Arason. Even though every time we head back something has changed, even if only subtly so, I' still happy heading north through the snow and the ice and spending time in that remote Northern Iceland village. Although, it has to be said, it feels perhaps a little less remote these days, a new road making the village more accessible to tourists and icelanders alike, and making it a little more crowded than Ari Thór thinks it really needs to be. Plus, there has been some major upheaval in his personal life leaving him once again alone, but no longer deemed quite the newby.

It's a perplexing case that Ari Thór is faced with - the body of a teenage girl found in the middle of the night, beneath the balcony of an apartment block that she has no connection to. Not only that, but the owner of the flat is down in Reykjavik, so there is no obvious reason as to how she would have gained access to the apartment in the first place. With a grieving family pushing him for answers, and some cryptic evidence found on the girl's phone, is this. simply a case of suicide or something more sinister. With Ari Thór distracted by matters of a personal nature and the reappearance of a face from the past, this is a perfect blend of mystery, suspense and unique characters that has made this series a joy to read.

What I really love about the books is that way in which Ragnar Jonasson manages to capture every aspect of the landscape, portraying it to the reader with a kind of love and respect. Through Ari Thór's observations as a not-quite-outsider looking in, we are able to get a ral feeling of the subtle changes that have happened in town since our last visit - the way in which it has become busier, those minor irritations when his favourite cinnamon buns have run out and the things he took for granted are in short supply with the increased footfall caused by the tourist trade. To be honest, he really kind of captured my own mood when my relative quiet of the early morning lockdown walk was disturbed by the gradual re-emergence of people into the wide world. I really could empathise with Ari Thór although I hope I was a little less grumpy about it, at least on the surface.

In spite of this though, the author still brings the chill, both in terms of the storyline and the physical sensation you have when you read the descriptions of snow drifts and the conditions that still have the power to cut Siglufjörður off from the rest of the island. There really is a power in his words as he transports you to the heart of the town, trudging through the snow alongside our hero, wishing you'd worn thicker gloves. Ragnar Jonasson also manages to bring the sense of isolation and remoteness of the locations as he introduces readers to Siglunes, one of the few remaining, remote and almost uninhabitable settlements that used to dot along the north coast. Accessible only by boat or a treacherous hike, the kind of isolation and segregation if offers both fascinates and scared me in equal measure.

If you come here looking for fast paced, action led mystery, then you are really looking at the wrong series entirely. This is a slow paced, almost contemplative story, in which the lives of the characters, Ari Thór especially, are every bit as important as the case he is trying to solve. This is a story of love, of family, abuse of trust and of lies, encapsulated in a quiet mystery that ended with the tragic death of a young girl.

My compliments to translator David Warriner who has captured every ounce of the beauty and quiet spirit of the first novels, making the author's words flow beautifully in English once more. My only complaint? It was over far too quickly. I will truly miss Ari Thór, but I can't think of a more fitting way to say goodbye.

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Jacob Collins

Chilling and unputdownable!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 December 2020

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Ragnar Jonasson’s books are always the perfect read for this time of year, and it is something I have come to look forward to as the winter approaches. Atmospheric, addictive, and very easy to sink into. Winterkill is an excellent choice if you’re looking for a book to read over the festive period. I have heard this is the last in this series and I am sad to see it draw to a close. But don’t worry if you haven’t read the previous novels as it can be read as a standalone. You’ll definitely want to read the first five books once you read this one.

Detective Inspector Ari Thór Arason is called to a horrific scene where a teenage girl has plunged to her death from a high-rise building. On the basis, it looks as though the girl has committed suicide, but Ari Thór believes there is something else at play here. What was going on in her life to prompt her to throw herself from the top of a building? Was it really just an accident? As Ari Thór continues to investigate, he begins to sense that something prompted the young girl to take this course of action. But what was so terrible that made her decide that this was her only way out?

The novel is told over the course of the Easter weekend. Siglufjörður is facing a horrific snowstorm, causing blackouts and severe disruption. It isn’t the best weather to be conducting a murder investigation, but Ari Thór pushes on. The threatening blizzard creates a dark and foreboding atmosphere; it gives you the sense that it could cause many things to go wrong with the investigation. But this isn’t something that the residents of Siglufjörður aren’t used to. Apart from those who haven’t spent all their lives there. The weather can catch them off guard. Ari Thór is still fairly new to the area as well, having come from the capital, Reykjavík. The locals have come to slowly accept him after proving that he can stick around after surviving the harsh winters. This is something always seen as a test to newcomers who are not used to the climate.

Ragnar Jonasson builds on the atmosphere as the novel progresses. I love the way how the writing takes us into the Icelandic landscape. Once again it has been expertly translated by David Warriner. The writing flows beautifully, and it hooked me right away from the opening chapters. You get a clear sense of the dominating fjord. It made me want to google images of the town, and the scenery is stunning.

The crime which takes place in this book isn’t an overly complicated one. You get the sense that Ari Thór is on the cusp of discovering something big and even the revelations that come are a shock to him. Ragnar wraps everything up really well and delivers the perfect ending which sent shivers down my spine as I was reading it.

As I have come to expect from Ragnar Jonasson’s books, Winterkill is utterly chilling and unputdownable. It took me no time at all to finish this book. This is a series which I highly recommend. Once you read one book by Ragnar Jonasson, you’ll want to read everything he’s ever written. Top stuff!

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Steve Duke

Overworking An Exhausted Seam.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 December 2020

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This is ostensibly the finale in a series of crime novels featuring the Icelandic detective Ari Thor. In fact it appears to be an add-on in response to readers' demand for another Ari Thor story after a previous 'last of the series'. Unfortunately, it shows.

There are three threads to this 'final' novel: the suspicious death of a nineteen years old girl and and its connection to an elderly man's bizarre behaviour; errant care in Icelandic society's institutions; and, of course, Ari's life. The story telling is weaker and half hearted in comparison to the earlier Ari Thor novels. The suspense isn't drawn out and the explanation of the girl's death, unconvincing. The sub plot, arising from the elderly care resident's graffiti, feels tacked on to fill out a poor main plot, fill out the book a little (it is substantially thinner than his other books), and to disguise a lack of depth in the writing. The denouement of this sub plot is plainly signalled almost from the beginning. Shame!

Most disappointingly, Ari's life, romance/s -previously written with style and feeling - and especially his involvement with his son, are thinly sketched out leaving the reader knowing little more about a favourite character than he did at the end of the previous book.

I still had interest in Ari and his life, but it looked like he bored the author and was only resurrected to please his readership. I like Mr Jonasson's books and will probably continue to read them, but I shall not be asking him to go back to what is clearly an exhausted seam.

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James Tormey

An end to the series, I am sure to miss Ari

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 December 2020

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note: While it is part of a series I feel like this book works very well as a standalone. Of course it may spoil come moments in the personal life of Ari Thór but in terms of the mystery itself everything here is new.

It has been a couple of years since we have visited Ari Thór and the other residents of Siglufjörður, at least in English, but the time has come to return, for what appears to be the last time (unless we eventually get that prequel I’ve been hankering for).

Winterkill is billed as the final book (Book 6) in the Dark Iceland series – and what a way to go out.

Ari is still in the town of Siglufjörður, but it is not as sleepy a place as it was when he first arrived. The addition of better transport to the region has made the town more viable for tourists and with Easter weekend approaching it is set to be a busy time.

Ari already has a busy weekend ahead of him trying to catch up with his son, who is coming to visit from Sweden. It quickly becomes clear that things did not work out for Ari and his girlfriend of previous novels – the events of the book further clarifying the problems of being one of only two police officers available in a small town. There is little time for family when something happens.

Ari appears therefor to be living quite a solitary existence – while Siglufjörður is not as lonely as it used to be, there is still an element of loneliness that seeps off the pages, exacerbated by the still present feeling of claustrophobia that some experience from living in such an isolated part of the world. The book is peppered with Ari’s thoughts about whether he wants to stay in the town or not. There is, after all, very little keeping him there.

The overall story relates to the death of a young lady in the middle of the town. Bad timing given the weekend that is in it, most of the people Ari speaks to seem eager to classify it as a suicide an move on. Of course Ari isn’t one to close a case too quickly and in the course of his investigation makes some startling discoveries. This is not a story that I could walk away from easily and I could barely put it down. I read it in a few sessions over a couple of days and it kept me intrigued all the way through.

I for one am very sorry to see the end of this series, Ari Thór has taken up residence as one of my favourite literary characters. This is a very worthy ending and I recommend you check it out.

Avid Reader

A last hurrah for Ari Thor

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 December 2020

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I can't resist Jónasson's Ari Thor novels, as Snowblind was my introduction to the addictive Icelandic Noir genre, and this one was no exception. It had a slightly different feel to it I felt, but that might be a hint of the different 'voice' of a different translator. I couldn't help wondering if the writing lost anything along the way, having been filtered through French first? But no matter, it gives us the ending we all wanted to this series. The Easter setting, with such snowy weather, makes for perfect reading over Christmas - despite our disappointing lack of the white stuff these days the notion of white Christmases remains a fond one, chilly but comforting, being safely in the warm. Not so for the poor victim in this book, who falls to her death from a balcony. It would appear to be suicide, but the strange behaviour of a local nursing home resident causes Ari Thor to dig a little deeper. I wanted to shake Ari Thor when he didn't mention to Ugla that his ex and son were staying with him, I foresaw disaster looming on that front...but I was wrong, which comes as no surprise to me with Ragnar's writing! Some novels written in Icelandic don't have too much detail about the setting because it is familiar to residents, but this book does Siglufjorður justice so you can really feel that sense of beauty, but also the closing in and isolation. I am sad to see Ari go, but I was glad to have this ending. I don't think it is quite the finest of his Sigló novels, although others have raved about it and Ragnar is clearly at the top of his game, winning awards left right and centre, but it is a worthy companion volume for completeness of the series. Thank you, and goodnight, Ari Thor, sofðu vel.

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