Author: Ragnar Jonasson
Publisher: Minatour Books
Publication date: October 2018
The body of a young Russian woman washes up on an Icelandic
shore. After a cursory investigation, the death is declared a suicide and the
case is quietly closed.
Over a year later Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir
of the Reykjavík police is forced into early retirement at 64. She dreads the
loneliness, and the memories of her dark past that threaten to come back to
haunt her. But before she leaves she is given two weeks to solve a single cold
case of her choice.
She knows which one: the Russian woman whose hope for asylum
ended on the dark, cold shore of an unfamiliar country. Soon Hulda discovers
that another young woman vanished at the same time, and that no one is telling
her the whole story. Even her colleagues in the police seem determined to put
the brakes on her investigation. Meanwhile the clock is ticking.
Hulda will find the killer, even if it
means putting her own life in danger.
This review is going to be a bit spoilery, so if you have
any interest in reading it, then just scroll on past. In The Darkness,
Hulda is a detective who is being forced into retirement. She has the
opportunity to try to close one last case. For the most part, I did enjoy
the mystery I also enjoyed Hulda's character. I liked her as a
detective and she was a character I would love to read more about.
Which brings me to the biggest issue I have with this
book. The ending. Why did the author choose to end the book like
that? It is the first book in a series. I looked and the other
books have the same character only years before when she was at the height of
her career. It just makes no sense to me and did not make me want to on
to read the other two books. It's how I feel about the upcoming Black
Widow movie. Why would I want to see that movie knowing what happened to
her character in Avengers: End Game? It has good reviews on
Goodreads, so maybe it's just a case of not for me syndrome.
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