At the moment I hand over to Mandie who’s sharing her ideas on Lifeless Candy by Katrín Júlíusdóttir, translated by Quentin Bates, as a part of the paperback weblog tour. I’ll be resharing my overview afterward within the tour. A nig thanks to Anne Cater of Random Issues Excursions for inviting us to participate. Right here’s what the ebook’s all about:
Launch Date: 07 December 2023
Publosher: Orenda Books
In regards to the Ebook
A homicide is just the start…
When Óttar Karlsson, a rich and revered authorities official and businessman, is discovered murdered, after failing to show up at his personal shock birthday celebration, the police are at a loss. It isn’t till younger police officer Sigurdís finds a well-hidden protected in his impersonal luxurious residence that clues begin rising.
As Óttar’s shady enterprise dealings turn into clear, a second, surprising line of enquiry emerges, when Sigurdís finds a US telephone quantity within the protected, together with papers exhibiting common cash transfers to an American account. Following the path to Minnesota, trauma rooted in Sigurdís’s personal childhood threatens to resurface and the investigation strikes chillingly near dwelling…
Atmospheric, deeply unsettling and stuffed with breakneck twists and turns, Lifeless Candy is a startling debut thriller that uncovers a terrifying world of monetary crime, sinister cults and disturbing secret lives, and kicks off an addictive, mind-blowing new collection.
Mandie’s Ideas
Lifeless Candy is the primary ebook by Katrín Júlíusdóttir and I couldn’t put it down as soon as I had began it. The opening chapter provides you an concept of what lies forward however on the identical time leaves you with questions that you just gained’t get the solutions to till the very finish.
When authorities official Óttar Karlsson is discovered murdered the police focus their investigations on his work as they consider that may discover the motive for his homicide someplace in all of the issues he was engaged on. There may be one individual although who thinks they need to be his private life extra intently and that may be a younger police officer referred to as Sigurdís. She has solely not too long ago returned to energetic obligation and her bosses try to maintain her from straying from the official line of enquiry even when they’re struggling to make any headway. She does have one individual in her nook, and he tries to assist her while additionally cease her from making any errors.
All through the ebook there are what look like diary entries from an unknown individual, and it’s unclear at first as to how they hyperlink in with the investigation, however they provide off a way of unease about what has but to be uncovered and can finally make the motive for the homicide comprehensible if not defendable. The extra we study Óttar Karlsson, the extra it’s clear that the private and non-private personas are very totally different and even on that rating these near him will not be totally conscious of what he was actually like and Sigurdis is correct to wish to pursue each angle.
I favored Sigurdis, she is tenacious and refuses to let anybody cease her from doing what she believes is correct. Her frustration at instances is comprehensible as as a result of nature of the sufferer’s skilled life the police are on a clock to unravel the homicide, but it surely additionally appears to have made them blinkered. The query is will she be capable to make them take heed to her earlier than its too late? Katrín Júlíusdóttir has given us a set of characters that not solely gel nicely as a crew however she has managed to provide us simply sufficient again story to make you wish to know extra about them and within the case of Sigurdis may have you questioning what’s subsequent for her particularly after the way in which the ebook ended and her previous threatens to derail the life she and her household have managed to create.
In regards to the Creator
Katrín obtained the Blackbird Award, an Icelandic crime-writing prize, for her first novel, Lifeless Candy in 2020. Her debut novel was reviewed nicely by critics and hit the best-selling lists within the first weeks after publication. Katrín has a political background and was a member of Parliament from 2003 till 2016. Earlier than she was elected to Parliament, Katrín was an advisor and mission supervisor at a tech firm and a senior purchaser and CEO within the retail sector, in addition to the Managing Director of a pupil union throughout her uni years. She labored from a younger age within the fishing trade, as a retailer clerk and took nighttime shifts at a pizza place. She studied Anthropology and has an MBA from Reykjavík College. She was raised in Kópavogur, about quarter-hour’ drive from downtown Reykjavík. She now lives within the neighbouring city of Garðabær along with her household. She is married to writer Bjarni M. Bjarnason, who inspired her to begin writing. They’ve 4 boys.
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