Sun on Fire

Sun on Fire is the second book I have read by Icelandic author, Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson. It’s a solid police procedural with echoes of an Agatha Christie closed room style of murder mystery. I like Ingólfsson’s writing style and the translation certainly seems to do the original Icelandic version ju......more

Sun on Fire was a good Police Procedural read. It crossed into Germany and back to Iceland again. The Police characters were fantastic and I would love to read more of them. The character writing and dialog was really what drew me in to this story along with the well developed sense of place. The st......more

I love Icelandic mysteries, and this one had a new twist - the crime was committed in an Icelandic embassy in Germany. Luckily, there was still plenty of action in Iceland, as the Icelandic detectives investigated connections between the potential suspects. I liked the diverse team of detectives - a......more

This Noir is actually two stories, both involving the same characters. The first story is that of Sun, a magnificently perfect young woman who had only two flaws: she was afraid of mice and fire. That she died by fire is the reason her story remains important; the REASON she died by fire is crucial......more

I have to revise my opinion of this one. I listened to it for a second time at work tonight, and it wasn't nearly as slow as I remembered. The one scene that I really, strongly remembered wasn't the murder, or the crime scene, or the horrifying description of a past incident. Nope. It was the scene a......more