![]() They proceed methodically and with the odd unconventional touch à la John Rebus, which makes the story more interesting. Ingolfsson’s detectives, huge, impulsive Gunnar Mariuson and the more thoughtful Birkir Li Hinriksson, of Asian origin and with a passion for marathon running, aren’t exactly a pair of action cops. ![]() ![]() Initially the pace isn’t headlong, but curiosity at how the author – and of course his Reykjavik homicide squad detectives, playing away from home in Germany – will generate a credible plot starting from such premises, was more than sufficient to keep me turning the pages, ultimately to much satisfaction. In the recently-published ‘ Sun on Fire’, Ingolfsson confirms his skills as a fine crime fiction practitioner: the novel fires off with a paedophile entrepreneur found dead at the Icelandic embassy in Berlin, with 8 potential killers, all of course above suspicion (including the ambassador himself), no motive whatsoever and, to complicate matters, a murder weapon that simply had no way of getting inside the embassy… but did. ![]() Iceland TV has even produced a thriller mini-series in 2008, ‘ Mannaveiðar (I Hunt Men)’, based from his third novel, ‘Daybreak’. Icelandic author Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson, after his debut novel ‘ The Flatey Enigma’, in which he blended typical crime fiction ingredients with historical and linguistic research, has produced a series of rather more canonical works. ![]()
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