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Call Number: Mystery
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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"First published in Great Britain as 66° North by Corvus, an imprint of Atlantic Books, Ltd" -- verso.
"A Magnus Jonson mystery" -- dust jacket.
"In January 2009 there are demonstrations in the centre of Reykjavik. A small group of protesters meet up and complain about how the demonstrations are too peaceful, not violent enough. They get drunk together, and then go out on to the streets where they attack and accidentally kill a banker, the former boyfriend of one of them. The death is dressed up as suicide. Eight months later a senior Icelandic banker is murdered in London. Magnus works with the British police on the case. As Magnus begins to discover links between the deaths of the two bankers, it becomes clear that there is a conspiracy to kill the people whom Icelanders blame most for the economic crisis in their country. Magnus must nail the conspirators before they kill again. Meanwhile Magnus makes uncomfortable discoveries about his Icelandic family going back several generations. Are these related to the death of his own father in Massachusetts when Magnus was a student?" -- from author's web site.

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Death, Drinking, and Bankrupty in Iceland submitted by sdunav on July 1, 2013, 5:03pm This is a slow moving but interesting mystery set in Iceland following the kreppa - the financial crisis of 2008, which was followed by the "pots and pans revolution", in which the government was essentially ousted by protestors.

Some of the Icelandic names and places are really long and convoluted (reminds me of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"), but the descriptions of family feuds, changing lifestyles of fisherman and farmers and bankers, and the police - and how the Icelandic police are different from American cops - is pretty interesting. Some of the story arc is a continuation of Ridpath's first 'Magnus Jonson' mystery - "Where Shadows Lie".