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The Fox

Ice and Crime Series, Book 1

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The Fox

By: Sólveig Pálsdóttir, Quentin Bates - translator
Narrated by: Ann Richardson
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Hoping to put behind him tragedy in his professional life and to resolve the turmoil in his personal life, Reykjavik police officer Guðgeir Fransson has moved as far away from home as he can, marking time in a dead-end job in a small town in eastern Iceland.

His detective's instincts are triggered when he hears about a foreign woman who arrived in this tight-knit community - and then disappeared as suddenly as she had appeared. The trail of the missing woman takes him back to Reykjavik, and then to a remote farmhouse beneath dark mountains where an elderly woman and her son live with their sinister past.

An exciting new voice in Nordic crime fiction, Glass Key Award-nominated Icelandic author Solveig Pálsdottir is published for the first time in English.

©2017 Solveig Palsdottir; Translation copyright 2020 by Quentin Bates (P)2021 Tantor Crime Fiction International Mystery & Crime Mystery Fiction Crime Suspense
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Not a bad story. Lost interest in the middle but stuck with it. Ending seemed rushed but too long overall. Might listen to the second book sometime in the future.

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A strange tale that was more interested in being a very dark tale than a good story. I liked the detective but he was a sad soul. His wife had exiled him to the back of beyond for a year whilst she figured out their marriage. The poor victim - not sure she needed to be disfigured when she was already downtrodden. Ending up in a weird household in the middle of nowhere to be mistreated and ultimately nearly killed. The tormented fox was another strange distraction - a bit too cliched and very far fetched but a good narrator.

Very dark tale

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A bit of a slow starter, Sajee a lady from Sri Lanka living in Snorrabraut Iceland where she has been living for a few years now, and has been given a job in a beauty parlour in Hofn more eastern Iceland. Still, when she arrives no one to meet her and she stays with a couple doing odd jobs around their house but then she disappears never to be seen again. Franson, an ex-police officer hears about this and works his best but, I did find this a bit slow and kept losing concentration.
Not read or listened to this author before as I like a lot of Scandi police thrillers, but I don't think I will bother with this author again, at least it was one of the free listens from Audible.

Slow Burner

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Positive and optimistic despite being full of darkness and mystery. Good creation of atmosphere Really enjoyed this .

Thrilling. A change from norms

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I thought the story was good, not great, but worth a listen, I had to persevere with it at times as I thought it was a little short of depth

An ok listen

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