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Loading... The Girl in the Ice: A Konrad Simonsen Thriller (original 2010; edition 2015)by Lotte Hammer (Author), Søren Hammer (Author), Paul Norlén (Translator)
Work InformationThe Girl in the Ice by Lotte Hammer (2010)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This was hard work in places. I generally enjoy the Scandinavian crime writers, but this did not flow. There were elements in the story telling that annoyed me and that I just simply didn't believe. And the characters were interesting for the most part but there wasn't enough depth to make them clear. ( ) This book kept me reading when I had other things I really should have been doing... What I Liked Erika. As a protagonist, and as a person, I liked her. She's bright, she's logical, and she knows how to lead her team. The way Bryndza wrote her, you could imagine her as the kind of boss who is liked, but above all respected. I also liked that Bryndza did not gave in to any temptation to make her Tortured Past completely dark. It felt real. Moss and Peterson - Erika's two subordinates, who jointly perform the function of Robin to her Batman. Also Woolf, the desk sergeant. This is a fast-moving book, more action than character, but Bryndza still managed to get across that Erika very quickly gained Moss and Peterson's loyalty as an investigative unit of three, but also gained Woolf as "her man" at slightly more distance. The Plot had some twists I didn't see coming. :-) What I Liked Less Coincidences - there were a couple of important coincidences, strokes of extreme good luck, just when the investigation seemed to have hit a brick wall. One, I could buy - more than that, not so much. Factual errors - I spotted a couple; not terribly important to the story, but irritating. A good editor should have spotted them (as well as a couple of grammatical word-choice errors). Weird pacing - right at the end, the writing seemed to lose its way a bit. Bryndza seems to be less good at writing dialogue in very tense situations, and at the very end, some incredibly important stuff happened "off page". At one moment, we're on the edge of our metaphorical seat, wondering what's going to happen next - and the next, it's all over. We never get to watch the climax as it happens - it's like having a conversation on a mobile when you're going through a tunnel: you get all the build-up to the scandalous revelation about exactly what Mary was seen doing with That Man at George's wedding, then reception fails and by the time you get the connection back, the conversation's moved on to double glazing. It's as if Bryndza didn't think he could write it well enough, so he chickened out. Conclusion Will I read the next one? Almost certainly, yes. I want to see what Erika has to deal with next, and I want to see her consolidate her team. no reviews | add a review
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HTML:Under the heartless vault of Greenland's arctic sky the body of a girl is discovered. Half-naked and tied up, buried hundreds of miles from any signs of life, she has lain alone, hidden in the ice cap, for twenty-five years. Now an ice melt has revealed her. When Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen is flown in to investigate this horrific murder and he sees how she was attacked, it triggers a dark memory and he realizes this was not the killer's only victim. As Simonsen's team works to discover evidence that has long since been buried, they unearth truths that certain people would prefer stayed forgotten. Disturbing details about the moral standing of some of Denmark's political figures are revealed and powerful individuals are suddenly working against the case. But the pressure is on as it becomes clear that the killer chooses victims who all look unsettlingly similar, a similarity that may be used to the investigators' advantage—just so long as they can keep the suspect in their sights. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)839.8138Literature German and related languages Other Germanic literatures Danish and Norwegian literatures Danish Danish fiction 2000–LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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