Ragnar Jónasson. (2017). Nightblind: A Thriller. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Ragnar Jónasson. 2017. Nightblind: A Thriller. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Ragnar Jónasson, Nightblind: A Thriller. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2017.

Ragnar Jónasson. Nightblind: A Thriller. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2017.

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   • bioText: RAGNAR JONASSON (he/him) is an international award winning author, with over four million books sold in 36 territories. His books have been number one bestsellers in Germany, where he had three books on the top ten of the Spiegel bestseller list at the same time, as well as on Amazon Kindle in the UK, Canada and Australia. His books are frequent number one crime fiction bestsellers in France, and in 2021 he became the first Icelandic author to enter the Sunday Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. His series, the Dark Iceland series, and the Hulda series, are being developed for television by CBS Studios/Stampede and Warner Bros. respectively.
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Chilling and complex, Nightblind is an extraordinary thriller from Ragnar Jónasson, an undeniable new talent.
Ari Thor Arason is a local policeman who has an uneasy relationship with the villagers in an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland—where no one locks their doors.
The peace of this close-knit community is shattered by a murder. One of Ari's colleagues is gunned down at point-blank range in the dead of night in a deserted house. With a killer on the loose and the dark Arctic waters closing in, it falls to Ari Thor to piece together a puzzle that involves a new mayor and a psychiatric ward in Reykjavik. It becomes all too clear that tragic events from the past are weaving a sinister spell that may threaten them all.

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   • source: Lee Child, internationally bestselling author of the Jack Reacher thrillers
   • content: "Jonasson is an automatic must-read for me ... possibly the best Scandi writer working today."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly (starred)
   • content: "Excellent...Jonasson plants clues fairly before a devastatingly unexpected reveal, without sublimating characterization to plot."
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   • source: Kirkus Reviews
   • content: "The final surprise carries a real shock; and of course the advent of the Icelandic winter is likely to chill hearts even below the Arctic Circle."
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   • source: BookPage
   • content: "A unique Nordic Noir of the first order."
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   • source: Mystery Scene
   • content: "Jonasson delights in playing with the expectations of his audience, pulling the carpet out from under us on more than one occasion. Pure entertainment."
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   • source: The Times
   • content: "British aficionados of Nordic Noir are familiar with two excellent Icelandic writers, Arnaldur Indridason and Yrsa Sigurdardottir. Here's a third: Ragnar Jonasson...the darkness and cold are almost palpable."
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     September 15, 2017
     A second case looms for Ari Thor Arason, half the police force of the north Icelandic town of Siglufjordur, when the other half gets shot in an abandoned house.Nothing much has happened in the house near the entrance to the Strakar tunnel since 1961, when one of the twins living there took a fatal header from its balcony. And Inspector Herjolfur, a recent arrival to the community, wouldn't even be investigating the report of someone seen inside if Ari Thor weren't down with the flu. As it is, his patrol ends abruptly with a shotgun blast that sends him to the hospital, hovering between life and death. Will it also send Ari Thor, who campaigned unsuccessfully for the position of inspector, into Herjolfur's place? Not a chance. Instead, the powers that be summon Tomas, the boss who preceded Herjolfur, back from Reykjavik to take charge of the case. So Tomas is also on hand when an even more recent arrival is stabbed to death. To Ari Thor's chagrin, his old chief insinuates himself into this case as well. It looks as if the eternal second fiddle (Snowblind, 2017) will have enough time on his hands to take care of his son, Stefnir, who's almost a year old, when his physician wife, Kristin, accedes to the local hospital's pleas that she return to her job. Maybe Ari Thor will even have the leisure to notice that corruption threatens the local political establishment and that Kristin is thinking seriously of leaving him. The plotting is rudimentary, but the final surprise carries a real shock; the excerpts from a 1982 diary pack a punch of their own; and of course the advent of the Icelandic winter is likely to chill hearts even below the Arctic Circle.

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     Starred review from October 16, 2017
     Set five years after the action of Snowblind, Jónasson’s excellent second thriller featuring Ari Thór Arason to be published in the U.S. finds Ari Thór passed over for the position of inspector in the small Icelandic town of Siglufjördur, a setback mitigated by his reunion with his girlfriend, Kristín, and the birth of their son, Stefnir. When Herjólfur, the man who got the inspector’s position, dies after being blasted at close range by a shotgun near an abandoned house, Ari Thór’s former superior, Tómas, oversees the investigation. Ari Thór and Tómas step on some powerful toes as they follow leads pointing to the town’s mayor, Gunnar Gunnarsson; phone records show that Herjólfur called Gunnarsson late at night shortly before the attack. The mayor’s claim that the conversation was about traffic strikes the pair as implausible. Ari Thór soon begins to feel like a “stranger in a place where everyone was connected and no one could be trusted completely.” Jónasson plants clues fairly before a devastatingly unexpected reveal, without sublimating characterization to plot. Agent: David Headley, DHH Literary Agency (U.K.).

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