The best representative of nordic genre noir, insular version, returns with one of its plots of maximum psychological tension towards that total thriller that connects with fears that are born from the telluric, taking advantage of the vast solitude of Iceland made home not only of the author himself but also of his gruesome settings and his disturbing characters.
Because icelandic Arnaldur Indridason he surrenders to a deep narrative within this aspect of the criminal that has been giving so much in world literature in recent decades. And become a great exponent of Iceland, no one like him takes advantage of the icy landscapes, the wide steppes in which there is no possible hiding place beyond the darkness sifted for months and months ...
In this stolen innocence that the writer presents to us on this occasion, we meet two characters who have just left the scene with the grim reaper taking them out violently. Death has taken them away as part of a sinister plan for whose final unveiling, the good old inspector Erlendur will have to pull the only possible clue: the past relationship between the two as teacher and student.
From those days of learning and tuition a long time has passed. The teacher continued to practice as such while the student has ended up sinking into mental illness as a consequence of God knows what the hells he visited.
But now the death of both opens a path darkened by madness and fear. A path that seems to lead towards the fire of those hells that has ended up burning them both. Because the suicide of the young schizophrenic and his former teacher marry something else, with an unspeakable secret, to whose simple sensation of being discovered, both preferred death.
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