The Ritual, Stefan Mani
The Ritual, Stefan Mani
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The Ritual

Author: Stefan Mani, Philip Roughton

Series: Grimsson

Narrator: Ulf Bjorklund

Unabridged: 10 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/20/2022


Synopsis

Evil is at large . . .

A member of the parliament is stabbed to death in Reykjavik, the small and usually peaceful capital of Iceland. Police officer Grímsson thinks he saw the perpetrator earlier that night, in a pub in the city's east end. The young man turns himself in. He has no previous record and does not remember anything about the night of the murder, but his fingerprints are on the murder weapon. Grímsson feels that the young man is somehow innocent, a victim rather than a wrongdoer.

The day before the murder, Grímsson was called to a storage unit after a human skull was found there. The man who rented the unit, a known drug user and an anarchist, previously committed suicide. In the unit, Grímsson found books on black magic and hypnotism, a black mirror, black candles, and a makeshift altar.
The leader of the anarchist gang is Aron Beck, a dangerous sociopath serving time in prison. When another brutal murder takes place, and another unlikely perpetrator is captured, Grímsson begins to wonder if Aron Beck is somehow behind all this madness. But how?

The clock is ticking and yet another murder is brewing in the black cauldron of an evil mind . . .

Contains mature themes.

About Stefan Mani

Stefan Mani was raised in the rural fishing village Ólafsvik, on the Snaefellsnes peninsula in western Iceland. At the age of twenty-six, he put all his belongings in an old car and moved to the capital city of Reykjavik to publish his first book. For the first ten years as a writer, he was working full or half time as a construction worker, a dishwasher, in a printing press and in a home for the insane. His first major success, at home and abroad, was the haunting thriller The Ship. Since then, he has been writing the hugely popular Grimsson detective series, along with occasional thrillers and other work. In 2012 the movie Black's Game premiered, based on his bestselling thriller by the same title. The movie is the second most popular and second highest grossing film in Icelandic history.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jyri on January 17, 2024

Luettu suomenkielinen versio (Rituaali, kääntänyt Virve Juhola). En ole mikään dekkarien tai nordic noirin suurkuluttaja, mutta jostain syystä tämä osui silmiin Storytelin etusivulla ja sitä myötä erehdyin lukemaan. Tarina on oikeastaan aika pöhkö ja päähenkilö on täysi idiootti, mutta kirja on helpp......more

Goodreads review by Genevieve on January 23, 2023

This was so weird. The protagonist is the most unbearable sadsack, with self-esteem so low and social skills so poor that they rival my own! It was a heck of a choice. I appreciated it. What I found a little less easy to swallow was his bumbling incompetence combined with flashes of genius insight,......more

Goodreads review by Stefan on August 14, 2024

Jag läste denna fantastiska spänningsroman på mina e-bok läsare Onyx Boox Palma och Bigme B751c. Föredrar att läsa. Dessutom så hade Storytel en bugg med synk mellan läsa och lyssna med denna bok. Det fungerade inte. Men vilken fantastisk story! Först i början var det lite tungt med alla isländska n......more

Goodreads review by Heiðdís on January 15, 2023

The story has a good plot with all the dark undercurrents, social issues and surprise elements that a good nordic noir should have, but also with a supernatural twist due to the main characters own seventh sense. Hörður Grímsson, the ‘red haired giant’ is a flawed, grumpy and extremely likeable Icel......more

Goodreads review by Reetta on December 28, 2024

Hämmentävä islantilainen rikosromaani, joka ei pitkään aikaan juuri mitenkään poikkea tavallisista rikosromaaneista hyvin pitkään, ja sitten yhtäkkiä koko hommasta tuleekin yliluonnollista seikkailua. Sinänsä en vastusta yliluonnollisia elementtejä mutta tässä oli vaikea hyväksyä, kun niitä ei ollut......more