Deathbook, Stefan Mani
Deathbook, Stefan Mani
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Deathbook

Author: Stefan Mani, Philip Roughton

Series: Grimsson

Narrator: Ulf Bjorklund

Unabridged: 9 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/27/2022


Synopsis

Detective H. Grímsson is a city detective, and a damn good one at that, owing much to what he calls his uncanny intuition. However, that's only half the truth of it—detective Grímsson is clairvoyant and frequently sees the grim shadow of death before it approaches.

A young college student is found dead in his BMW on a gravel road not far from the city. He was shot at close range. Grímsson suspects that this has something to do with the nudes that the deceased had in his possession. In August, the deceased and his two college friends were at a party where a young girl died from a drug overdose. Is there a link?

A few days later another college student is found shot dead in his car. This second victim was also at the party. What Grímsson doesn't know is that a selected group of college students have received anonymous messages from a sinister social media page called Deathbook. Deathbook asks the students to give it a name of a person who is making their life miserable. A few days later, the person they name is found dead. Soon after, they get another message—and only then do they realize that they are caught in an evil web they cannot get out of . . .

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 Már on November 11, 2020

Enn og aftur frábær saga. Plottið í kringum morðin er aukaatriði því Hörður er áhugaverðasti karakterinn í íslenska glæpasagna heiminum. Djöfulsins skíthæll en samt ekki. Maður þolir hann ekki, vorkennir honum og samsamar sig við þennan lúðalega tröllkarl með minnimáttarkennd og impostorsyndrome. Geg......more

Goodreads review by Inga on January 13, 2021

Góð bók frá hendi Stefáns Mána. Þarft umræðuefni sem hann setur fram í spennubók. Hættur sem leynast á netinu og kunnátta og áhrifamáttur einstaklinga sem eru siðlausir og valdasjúkir og hatursfullir. Geta fengið fólk til að gera hluti sem þeir mundu aldrei geta ímyndað sér að þeir ættu eftir að ger......more