Meltwater

This is the third book in this series... not a fantastic book on its own... but a great chapter in the series. Think of it like your weekly crime drama on t.v.... not every episode is going to be the season finale... but sometimes one like this does more to develop characters and pays off down the r......more

I must say, this is one brilliant piece of writing. One of the fewest which has ever managed to hook me. I read this in about 7 hours straight, with very little breaks. I guess I am going to keep on visiting this Nordic noir again, not just till Fire and Ice #4 turns up, but even after that. Freeflow......more

Enjoying this series (and it finished with a bit of a cliffhanger, so hoping there is more to come!) As in the previous books in the series, there's a modern story, a historical story and the personal history of the Icelandic-American detective (the historical story is from his family's history). Th......more

The latest in the Fire & Ice series and another cracker. Great characterisation and an imaginative and contemporary storyline set against the desolate beauty of the Icelandic landscape. The ending was, for me, to hastily wrapped up and somewhat weak but overall the third in the Magnus Jonson detecti......more

2nd part of a trilogy. Unfortunately I had read book 3 before and I wouldn't recommend that, although it is a good stand alone novel. I liked the "exotic" setting and it was written with a good knowledge of place (which was as important as many of the lesser described characters). It was written abo......more