Cold Comfort, Quentin Bates
Cold Comfort, Quentin Bates
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Cold Comfort

Author: Quentin Bates

Narrator: Davina Porter

Unabridged: 12 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2012


Synopsis

Officer Gunnhildur, recently promoted from her post in rural Iceland to Reykjav├¡k's Serious Crime Unit, is tasked with hunting down escaped convict Long Ommi, who has embarked on a spree of violent score-settling in and around the city. Meanwhile, she's also investigating the murder of a fitness guru in her own city-center apartment. As Gunna delves into the cases, she unearths some unwelcome secrets and influential friends shared by both guru and convict. Set in an Iceland plagued by an ongoing financial crisis, Gunna has to take stock of the whirlwind changes that have swept through the country—and the fact that at the highest levels of power, the system's endemic corruption still leads, inevitably, to murder.

Author Bio

Quentin Bates made his escape from suburbia at the end of the seventies as a gap year turned into a gap decade spent in the north of Iceland. He worked ashore and at sea before returning to England and, once finally ashore for good, drifted by accident into journalism.Finally the lure of fiction became too strong to resist. Sergeant Gunnhildur and the series of novels she features in have their origins in a deep affection for Iceland and its people, and an intimate knowledge of Icelandic society and its language, customs and quirks.Today he divides his time between the north of Iceland and the south of England, translating books from Icelandic in addition to working on his own fiction.

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