Snare
By: Lilja Sigurðardóttir ; translated by Quentin Bates
Contributors: Bates, Quentin, translator
Series: First in the Reykjavik noir trilogy
Publisher: Orenda Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781910633809
Subjects: Drug traffic; Single mothers; Lesbians; Fiction
Work titles: Gildran
Description: After a messy divorce, attractive young mother Sonja is struggling to provide for herself and win sole custody of her son. With her back to the wall, she resorts to smuggling cocaine into Iceland, and finds herself caught up in a ruthless criminal world. As she desperately looks for a way out of trouble, she must pit her wits against her nemesis, Bragi, a customs officer, whose years of experience frustrate her new and evermore daring strategies. Things become even more complicated by the fact that Sonja is in a relationship with a woman, Agla. Once a high-level bank executive, Agla is currently being prosecuted in the aftermath of the Icelandic financial crash. Set in a Reykjavik still covered in the dust of the Eyjafjallajokull volcanic eruption, and with a fast-paced and chilling plot and intriguing characters, Snare is an outstandingly original and sexy Nordic crime thriller, from one of the most exciting new names in crime fiction.
Notes: First published in Icelandic as Gildran by Forlagid in 2005.

Translated from the Icelandic.