Quentin Bates
Chilled to the Bone
Detective: DS Gunnhildur Gisladottir
Time Present
Setting Reykjavik, Iceland
Genre Scandi Noir
This is the third in the Gunna Gisladottir Series and is a well crafted novel. A victim of a scam run by a dominatrix dies gagged and tied to a bed. Other victims of the scam are discovered, all too embarrassed to have reported it to the police. As Gunna and her team try to identify the dominatrix so does an ex-con just returned from prison in Lithuania although his ultimate client is somewhere hidden in the background. At the same time a Civil Servant is under pressure to find a missing laptop. before compromising Government secrets leak out. To add to the complications a woman is mysteriously following the Civil Servant.
In the backplot, Gunna's son, who works away on the fishing fleet, advises hi mother that he has two women pregnant simultaneously.
Rating A+
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Previously read novels in the series
Frozen Assests (1)
Cold Comfort (2)
Winterlude (4)
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Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Quentin Bates
Winterlude
Detective:Detective Sergeant Gunhilder Gisladottir
Time Present
Setting: Iceland; Reykjavik
Genre: Scandi Noir
This is the fourth of Bates' "Gunni" Gisladottir novels although much of the investigative work in this one is carried out by her assistant Helgi, following up leads in his home village. Interestingly in the first two books Gunni is based in a small town away from the capital and the gets transferred to th city. Hasaving done that ates' seems to feel the need to set his plot back in rural Iceland.
Essentially its a well crafted but simple plot. An ex-con, freed early from his sentence for killing a child in a road accident is found battered to death in a warehouse he owns in Reykavik. The most likely perpetrator, the child's father, has a cast iron alibi as he was at sea at the time of the murder. However he has three brothers living in Helgi's small home town. Did one of them do it and if so which?
Rating A-
Quentin Bates' Blog
Previously Read Novels in the Series
Frozen assets (1)
Cold Comfort (2)
Winterlude
Detective:Detective Sergeant Gunhilder Gisladottir
Time Present
Setting: Iceland; Reykjavik
Genre: Scandi Noir
This is the fourth of Bates' "Gunni" Gisladottir novels although much of the investigative work in this one is carried out by her assistant Helgi, following up leads in his home village. Interestingly in the first two books Gunni is based in a small town away from the capital and the gets transferred to th city. Hasaving done that ates' seems to feel the need to set his plot back in rural Iceland.
Essentially its a well crafted but simple plot. An ex-con, freed early from his sentence for killing a child in a road accident is found battered to death in a warehouse he owns in Reykavik. The most likely perpetrator, the child's father, has a cast iron alibi as he was at sea at the time of the murder. However he has three brothers living in Helgi's small home town. Did one of them do it and if so which?
Rating A-
Quentin Bates' Blog
Previously Read Novels in the Series
Frozen assets (1)
Cold Comfort (2)
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