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This well-paced technothriller has managed to keep me awake for hours. I missed reading a book that kept me tied in!

Over half-way through his second novel and I could finally infer that the name of the main character, Erlendur, is in fact a first name.

So far, much better than "Arctic Chill" although not without its peaks of daftness.

Although the pace is still set on Arctic Snail, once I came to terms with its journalistic prose style the book finally took some shape. The characters all share a simple, common hate for each other, except for Sunnee who loves her son, but even that is one-sided. The translation still is like re-reading my 7th grade English manual. Everyone speaks the same unlikely pure, clean and stereotypical Queen's English...

I kept waiting for this "famous bestseller" to pick up pace, but I'm a quarter of the way through and it's not happening. The reader is assumed to be familiar with all the major players, and it took me a few tens of pages to learn that one of them was a female, and that only accidentally. The English translation makes all characters speak identically which is not helpful either. Hope things will improve later on!