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'Callum looked out over Reykjavík, its colourful dolls' houses snuggled together, their rooftops so sharp and precise against a blue-screen sky. He loved this daft capital, this gale blown toy town with whalebones under its flagstones...'
But Callum Pope cannot escape the horrors of his past.
He has fled his native Glasgow to make a fresh start in Iceland with Bírna Sveinsdóttir, the pretty glaciologist who is slowly thawing his heart.
He has moved in with Bírna, her indomitable mother (who happens to believe in fairies) and her eleven-year-old daughter - who refuses to believe in Callum. He tries hard to adjust to this new life among three generations of singular females, however, the dark secret Callum is hiding is about to raise its malign head, threatening not only to destroy his relationship but also the life of a young girl...
Perceptive, expansive and chilling, The Killer's Guide to Iceland is a novel about love, loss and persistent light, from the award-winning author of London Irish.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A Killer Travel Guide come Novel,
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This review is from: The Killer's Guide To Iceland (Paperback)
I stumbled across this book the other day. The title caught my eye, probably because I'm Icelandic (living in the UK at the moment). And when I read on the back and the first few pages while standing in the bookshop, I realised I would have to read the book. The Killer's Guide to Iceland is an unusual book and it cannot be easily categorised. It's a travel guide but it's also a novel which belongs in few genres; mystery, thriller and as a character novel. And it works on all the planes. Radcliffe has done his research, he gets almost all the Icelandic details down and all his Icelandic characters are very believable. All full of the Icelandic individuality. He might exaggerate in some cases like with the excessiveness of the traditional Icelandic dishes in Birna's and Sigríšur's household. But it works. He also weaves in Icelandic history, myths and landscape and does that masterfully. He only has to take leave with one event (the Heimaey eruption that was supposed to have happen in the early '90s). I also had hard time buying the fact that Arnar had been a heroin junkie in the early '90s in the Vestmannaeyjar, seeing that heroin still is an extremely rare drug in Iceland. He could have written in any other drug (except perhaps crack) and it would have been more believable. The sometimes incorrect use of Icelanic characters irritated me, and I'm sure this is more the editor's and the typesetter's fault. For instance, on the backcover, Birna is spelled Bírna and Sigríšur is always spelled Sigridur in the book. Also Birna's father was always referred to as Svein when the correct version would have been Sveinn. In a book that relies so much on the Icelandic language to create its mood, it would have been more professional to get all the spelling correct. I did like all the discussion of Icelandic issues in the book and I do think he nailed the willingness of Icelanders to discuss these things with foreigners quite well. I recognised this even with myself. The mystery part of the novel was intriguing and had me second-guessing everything until all was revealed. That part actually had me long for this book to made into a film. Overall, The Killer's Guide to Iceland is a great read, full of wonderful characters, well-plotted and probably one killer of a travel guide for Iceland.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Icelandic Delicacys,
By Max (Northern Ireland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Killer's Guide To Iceland (Paperback)
Having visited Iceland for the first time last year, and fallen totally in love with this fantastic country, it was great to read a book which so effortlessly managed to evoke the essence of both the country and its people. Reading it I felt that I was back there and all this along with a cracking plot and some laugh out loud moments as well. Readers may think that Zane Radcliffe is exaggerating some of the national traits in his Icelandic characters but I was able to recognise every single one of the foibles that he gave them, and they were far from rare. Overall this is a brilliant book and if you enjoy strong, quirky characters and thrillers with a twist and novel skew then this is a book for you.....I still haven't tried rotten shark though!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting - slow but speeds up!,
By Lizlovestoread (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Killer's Guide To Iceland (Paperback)
Quite interesting for snippets about and descriptions of Iceland but characters are a bit one dimensional. One of those annoying books that is not bad enough to stop reading because you actually want to see what happens. There is a good twist at the end but it starts too slowly.
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