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The Shadow in the River (Paperback)

by Frode Grytten (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Abacus (7 Jun 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0349120161
  • ISBN-13: 978-0349120164
  • Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.4 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 996,587 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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*'Scandinavian crime noir has a growing reputation and deservedly so . . . The downbeat pace, brooding atmosphere and wry cynicism are skilfully drawn in this superior, Chandleresque thriller' HERALD *'It's about ambition, greed, globalisation, money and excuses, lit by mordant humour and incisive insights' IRISH EVENING HERALD

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One June night, in a small town gripped by a sweltering heat wave, a young man is forced off the road and into the river. Robert Bell, a disillusioned local journalist with a dry sense of humour and an escalating drink problem, leaves behind the banality of his quiet office to investigate the mysterious death. Simmering racial tensions in the town threaten to boil over and local Serbian immigrants become the easy targets for blame. Robert's own brother, Frank, is the investigating police officer, but they have a problem sharing information. And another darker, hidden problem; Robert's in love with the one woman he can't have: Frank's wife Irene. Their affair continues through the stifling heat until one morning Irene vanishes. Is her disappearance somehow linked to the young man's death? Soon Robert is drawn deeper into the desperate hunt for a murderer and, as the storm clouds gather, finds some uncomfortable truths about his seemingly quiet community.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Bleak Black Humour in Small Town Norway, 27 Jun 2009
By Feanor (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Shadow in the River (Paperback)
Why, asked a Swedish acquaintance recently, are Nordic writers so keen to show such a vicious side to their societies? `We are a peaceful, relatively crime-free people,' he added. According to him, the sort of sociological analysis carried out by Henning Mankell and his younger followers are misplaced, and driven entirely by the desire to shock and to make money off that unsettledness. I don't think this argument has much merit. Human behaviour is pretty much the same everywhere: paedophilia and serial killers are no less known in Scandinavia than in the US or Indonesia. But why is there such an outpouring of more or less similarly plotted novels coming out of Norway and Sweden and Denmark? This I am still unable to fathom.

To save us from utter pessimism about Nordic noir, we have Frode Grytten, who has penned The Shadow in the River, and who is quite, quite different from the rest I've read so far. He is a man of mordant wit, and he shows off his skills superbly in this tale of xenophobia in Odda, yet another depressingly small and moribund town in western Norway. Grytten is a journalist for the Bergens Tidende, a newspaper in neighbouring Bergen, and so is the protagonist of this book, Robert Bell, a disillusioned, semi-alcoholic man in love with his brother's wife, a man whose career is not going anywhere, a man who is sinking into apathy but still manages to retain his biting satirical bent of mind. He investigates the death of a local man while public opinion begins to harden against immigrant Serbs with whom the victim had been seen to argue. His brother, a policeman in charge of the case, resents his interference, but surely the resentment stems from his suspicions of his wife's relationship with Robert. This is black understated humour and poignant and moving.
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