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Review: Jar City

Already two weeks ago I finished this book on holiday in Austria. I found it in the bookcase of our apartment, and since the two books I brought myself weren't going to be enough reading material for the week, I threw myself onto this thriller by Arnaldur Indridason, an Icelandic author. Why is it that all these Scandinavian authors write thrillers or detectives? Is it the landscape of these countries that inspire them to write about awful deaths? Title : Jar City Author : Arnaldur Indridason First published : Mýrin, 2000 My edition : Noorderveen, 2016 by Q (in Dutch) Cover : Not bad for a Dutch cover, great image of the Icelandic scenery. The blurb on the back was awful though. It said that the book was about a murder which could not have been solved without the modern DNA-technology. Well, that really distinguishes this book from others... Innerwork : Can't really remember, so must have been fine, otherwise I would have remembered ;) Compatibility with reading on the ...