Entertaining mystery featuring Icelandic lawyer, Thora Gudmundsdottir. This one has much less about Thora’s family and her German boyfriend does not make an appearance but it has a much more complex plot than her two previous novels. Some crimes took place on the Westmann Islands right before a devastating volcanic eruption in the 1970s. Now that the houses buried by ash are being excavated, what happened 35 years before is also being uncovered. Thora’s client is implicated in five murders, but as Thora works to clear him, who really killed the four men found in the basement of a house on the island and what about a nurse back in the city? Good characters abound so we don’t really miss the family dramas of her other novels. This one is very entertaining with a bit of a surprise ending.

posted Apr 8, 2012 at 9:34PM

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