The Day Is Dark: A Thriller
Lawyer Thóra Gudmundsdóttir, who’s headlined a handful of crime novels by this increasingly popular Icelandic author, has a tricky case on her hands. An Icelandic technology company working in Greenland on behalf of a British mining company has run into a series of delays. Now, their contract employees refuse to return to Greenland, and two of the workers seem to have disappeared. Thóra, hired to find out what’s going on in Greenland, soon discovers that another woman vanished several months ago. She also learns that she won’t be able to count on the locals for assistance. They want nothing to do with Thóra or the missing people or the area itself, which, Thóra figures out, they believe to be cursed. Although the landscape is bleak, Thóra is warm and engaging, and fans of mystery fiction with unusual or remote settings should enjoy this one very much. --David Pitt--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.