by Ragnar Jónasson and Katrín Jakobsdóttir
published September 19, 2023 from Minotaur Books
I really enjoyed this mystery from Icelandic crime writer Ragnar Jónasson and the Prime Minister of Iceland, Katrín Jakobsdóttir.
Reykjavik is set in 1986 and follows a journalist trying to solve a cold case from the 1950s. A 15-year-old girl vanished on a small island off the coast of Iceland’s capital city, Reykjavíik.
The book starts very slowly and didn’t capture me at first, but once we got to 1986 I was hooked.
I loved seeing how a small mystery affected an entire country for decades, and the backdrop of major events in Icelandic cultural history was fascinating.
I’ve also visited the small island in the novel, Videy, so that was a very fun surprise. I don’t travel a lot so it’s a treat when I can actually picture a location in a novel like that.
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Thank you to Netgalley and Minotaur Books for my review copy of this book.
Leanne Olson 
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