Seal hunters winter is a matter of permanence After it is found to be a Danish cryptographer missing for months the ensuing investigation uncovers a mysterious link between him and a medieval manuscript known as the Book of FlateyBefore long another body is found on Flatey another tiny island off the western coast This time in the ancient Viking tradition the victim’s back has been mutilated with the so called blood eagle Kjartan the district magistrate’s representative sent to.
flateyjargáta epub Flateyjargáta PDFEPUBSeal hunters winter is a matter of permanence After it is found to be a Danish cryptographer missing for months the ensuing investigation uncovers a mysterious link between him and a medieval manuscript known as the Book of FlateyBefore long another body is found on Flatey another tiny island off the western coast This time in the ancient Viking tradition the victim’s back has been mutilated with the so called blood eagle Kjartan the district magistrate’s representative sent to.
Flateyjargáta PDF ´ Paperback flateyjargáta epub, Flateyjargáta PDFEPUBBook reviewIceland with a population of 321857 is considered the most sparsely populated country in Europe and given that at most 1 or 2 murders annually are reported in the entire country it is not the first place readers might venture to discover new crime fiction authors And for most of the twentieth century publishers agreedFlatey Island The Flatey Enigma is one of the first books noticed by publishers as originating from Iceland at least those in translation some two years before Arnaldur's successful Jar City made it's way into crime fiction headlines It is a peculiar s
Flateyjargáta PDF ´ Paperback flateyjargáta epub, Flateyjargáta PDFEPUBThis is a mystery with different meanings with a couple of mysteries threading through out the whole story and the dead
Flateyjargáta PDF ´ Paperback flateyjargáta epub, Flateyjargáta PDFEPUBA slightly expanded version of this review can be found on Crime Fiction LoverThe year is 1960 Kjartan a rather green functionary from the local magistrate’s office reluctantly steps off the boat on the tiny Icelandic island of Ketilsey to file a report about a dead body found by local seal hunters Not used to field work he hope
Flateyjargáta PDF ´ Paperback flateyjargáta epub, Flateyjargáta PDFEPUBThere really is a series of Icelandic sagas called The Flatey Book Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson has crafted an interesting mystery story about a couple of strange deaths around the Island of Flatey in Ic
Flateyjargáta PDF ´ Paperback flateyjargáta epub, Flateyjargáta PDFEPUBThis gently paced novel has several threads interwoven like a skein of different coloured woolThe first thread is an investigation into one death then a second But are either of these deaths murder The second thread is an evocative insight into life as it was in this remote part of Iceland in 1960 Another is excerpts from the sagas read by an as yet unidentified person Kjartan the regional magistrate's assistant is sent to the island of Flatey when a badly decomposed body is found on a remote islet Who was he and how did he get there We gradually meet the locals some helpful some eccentric and it is this insight into the daily life of these isolated people that for me was one of the highlights of this book No one seems to have just one job the teacher works as a sealer in the summer time farmers fish part time just to make ends meet This seems to be an Icelandic tradition t
Flateyjargáta PDF ´ Paperback flateyjargáta epub, Flateyjargáta PDFEPUBThis book is actually a decent story and makes for a somewhat typical mystery The Icelandic setting and reliance on a historical Icelandic Norse manuscript as a center focus adds a somewhat uniue twist but in many ways it doesn't move any further than being a Icelandic version of a Dan Brown novel a la The Davinci CodeThe story is entertaining and uick however so it isn't what I would call bad The 3 star review reflects the entertainment value The reason it is no higher is of a reflection of a less than idea translation or a bit of a simplistic writing style I suppose when you are going for the action mystery type genre the writing style has to be simplistic but I can't help but think that the real book isn't a bit better Word choice is odd at times and references from
Flateyjargáta PDF ´ Paperback flateyjargáta epub, Flateyjargáta PDFEPUBAlthough the professionals from Reykjavik are finally sent for it's the amateurs who really do the lion's share of the murder investigations in The Flatey Enigma and I found following them around this remote area of western Iceland to be fascinating As villagers are interviewed as they help guide the magistrate's assistant from place to place the reader learns a lot about the customs and food of Iceland in 1960 I have to admit that I tended to skim o
Flateyjargáta PDF ´ Paperback flateyjargáta epub, Flateyjargáta PDFEPUBThis is an old fashioned cozy In fact since it takes place in 1960 I thought it might be a reprint from a book published that yearI like meandering stories with out of the norm characters And since it's set in Flatey part of Iceland I enjoyed learning about the culture and relations between Icelanders and other like countriesA Danish professor studying the Flatey Enigma an unsolved modern enigma about the Flatey Runes is
Flateyjargáta PDF ´ Paperback flateyjargáta epub, Flateyjargáta PDFEPUBThis one was really interesting It´s a mystery thriller taking place on a small island in Icland in the 60s To be honest if I wouldn´t have read about it being in the 60s I wouldn´t have known because the people were like I would expect them to be living on a remote island A dead man is found and soon everybody thinks the dead one is connected with an old book the book of flatey which exists in the real world In the thriller the book is connected to a riddle in 40 parts concerning the saga told in the book of flatey The story is interrupted with pieces of the saga and the riddle which corresponds to this part of the saga Sounds complicated but that´s my fault I just don´t know how to describe it But one learns uite a lot about this iclandic saga The main character is a civil
Flateyjargáta PDF ´ Paperback flateyjargáta epub, Flateyjargáta PDFEPUBI bought this book because it was the Kindle deal of day meaning cheap it had alright reviews and it was set in iceland a place I have never read much about I did read in the reviews that the English translation is awful which it is and that the story can be slow w