Nightblind, Ragnar Jonasson
Nightblind, Ragnar Jonasson
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Nightblind

Author: Ragnar Jónasson, Quentin Bates

Narrator: Will Damron, Richard Powers

Unabridged: 6 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/05/2017

Synopsis

Ari Thór Arason is a local policeman whose tumultuous past and uneasy relationships with the villagers in an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland―where no one locks their doors―continue to haunt him.The peace of this close-knit community is shattered by the murder of a policeman―shot at point-blank range in the dead of night in a deserted house. With a killer on the loose and the dark Arctic winter closing in, it falls to Ari Thór to piece together a puzzle that involves tangled local politics, a compromised new mayor, and a psychiatric ward in Reykjavík where someone is being held against their will. Then a mysterious young woman moves to the area, on the run from something she dares not reveal, and it becomes all too clear that tragic events from the past are weaving a sinister spell that may threaten them all.

About Ragnar Jónasson

RAGNAR JÓNASSON is an international number one bestselling author who has sold over three million books in thirty-six countries worldwide. His books include the Dark Iceland series and the Hulda series. Jónasson was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he also works as an investment banker and teaches copyright law at Reykjavik University. He has previously worked on radio and television, including as a TV news reporter for the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, and, since the age of seventeen, has translated fourteen of Agatha Christie's novels. Jónasson is the co-founder of the Reykjavik international crime writing festival Iceland Noir. His critically acclaimed international bestseller The Darkness is soon to be a major TV series, and Outside is soon to be a feature film. Jónasson lives in Reykjavik with his wife and two daughters.

About Quentin Bates

Quentin Bates lived in Iceland for ten years before moving back to the United Kingdom in 1990, where he became a full-time journalist at a commercial fishing magazine. He and his wife frequently return to Iceland, where they have many friends, including several in the Reykjavík police.

About Will Damron

Will Damron is an Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator and actor who has appeared off Broadway and on stage and screen throughout the country.

About Richard Powers

Richard Powers is the author of New York Times bestseller Bewilderment; The Overstory, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction; and The Echo Maker, which won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; among many other novels. Powers has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction, and is a four-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chelsea

Nightblind is a tricky book to review; if you chose to read this after Blackout then none of the spoilers ruined any plot twists and you are continuing in somewhat of a chronological order. This was the shortest book in the series so far; at only 206 pages I can’t give away much in terms of plot, bu......more

Goodreads review by Jeffrey

”At last they gave me a pencil and a notebook. It’s an old yellow pencil, badly sharpened, and an old notebook that someone has already used, the first few pages untidily ripped out. Had someone else already tried to put into words their difficulties and their helplessness, just as I’m doing? Maybe t......more

Goodreads review by Ken

For some strange reason the English publication order differs from the original, I’d assumed that this was the second in the series (as listed on Goodreads) but in actual fact it’s the fifth! It can be enjoyed as a stand-alone adventure but the fact that it’s set 5 years after the events of Snowblind......more

Quotes

“Story’s got me gripped, but even more satisfying is how the characters are never just there as pawns in the plot.” Ian Rankin, New York Times bestselling author

“This spine-tingler is a sequel to the bestselling Snowblind. But you needn’t have read a word of that first Nordic thriller to enjoy this one…What really makes Nightblind stand out is its vivid cast of characters, whose fears, ambitions, rivalries, and longings are movingly universal.” Oprah.com

“There will be no better way to start the year than by reading Nightblind…Jonasson’s books have breathed new life into Nordic noir.” Sunday Express (London)

“[With] excellent Icelandic writers, Arnaldur Indriðason and Yrsa Sigurðardóttir…here´s a third: Ragnar Jónasson…The darkness and cold are almost papable.” Times (London)

“An atmospheric portrayal of a claustrophobic place where everyone is connected…Economical and evocative prose, as well as some masterful prestidigitation.” Guardian (London)

“Jonasson delights in playing with the expectations of his audience, pulling the carpet out from under us on more than one occasion. Pure entertainment.” Mystery Scene magazine

“Excellent…Jónasson plants clues fairly before a devastatingly unexpected reveal, without sublimating characterization to plot.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A unique Nordic Noir of the first order.” BookPage

“Jónasson’s sharp-edged style lends a somber, haunting note to this exposé of domestic abuse.” Booklist

“The final surprise carries a real shock…and of course the advent of the Icelandic winter is likely to chill hearts even below the Arctic Circle.” Kirkus Reviews

Awards

  • Amazon Best Book of the Month
  • Oprah Pick
  • New York Post’s “Required Reading” List
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