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Blackout

Dark Iceland, Book 3

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Blackout

By: Ragnar Jónasson
Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
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On the shores of a tranquil fjord in Northern Iceland, a man is brutally beaten to death on a bright summer's night. As the 24-hour light of the arctic summer is transformed into darkness by an ash cloud from a recent volcanic eruption, a young reporter leaves Reykjavik to investigate on her own, unaware that an innocent person's life hangs in the balance.

Ari Thor Arason and his colleagues on the tiny police force in Siglufjordur struggle with an increasingly perplexing case while their own serious personal problems push them to the limit. What secrets does the dead man harbour, and what is the young reporter hiding? As silent, unspoken horrors from the past threaten them all, and the darkness deepens, it's a race against time to find the killer before someone else dies....

Dark, terrifying and complex, Blackout is an exceptional atmospheric thriller from one of Iceland's finest crime writers.

©2016 Ragnar Jonasson (P)2016 Audible, Ltd Cosy Crime Crime Fiction Crime Thrillers Genre Fiction International Mystery & Crime Literary Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Polar Region Exciting
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Not as gripping as the first two books, still enjoyed it though. Hope the next one is better.

Not as gripping as the first two books

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Well this has quite the most incident packed hour that I can recall. It’s well read by Leighton Pugh, who manages to report the events without an ever higher or faster pace. The story starts calmly and moves through a number of everyday events before things begin to ramp up.

A big finish

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The story only hots up on the final quarter & is good thereafter. However, the Icelandic names are a challenge making the story lines difficult to follow. Not the best book I've listened to but well narrated.

Hard to follow

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As this is actually book 2, not book 3, we already knew what happened to the policeman and that ari thor gets back with kristen, so both those plot lines were pointless. A shame. Not sure if this was Audible’s mistake for numbering them wrongly or the author thought it would be ok to do this. He also had to shoe horn in Ari Thor at the end when really it was the journalist who worked it out.
The names are difficult for the English ear as it’s much easier to lose track when names have no point of reference and sound very similar, but thats half the fun with a translated book. The narrator helps us navigate this. Im intrigued by the world of the series so I will persevere with the next book.

not the best

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Maybe not as good as Snowblind. It may have been the narrator though, who was OK on this one. The narrator of Snowblind had an Icelandic/Danish accent which somehow made it more authentic.
The story ended quite abruptly and it felt as if there were a few loose ends.

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