It’s New Year and Iceland is still reeling from the effects of the financial crash when a notorious financer is found beaten to death after a high-profile reception at the President’s residence. The Police are certain they have a killer – or do they? Determined to get to the truth, maverick lawyer Stella Blomkvist isn’t so sure. A stripper disappears from one of City’s seediest nightspots, and nobody but Stella seems interested in finding her. A drug mule cooling his heels in a prison cell refuses to speak to anyone but Stella – although she’s never heard of him. An old man makes a deathbed request for Stella to find the family he lost long ago. With a sharp tongue and a moral compass all of her own, Stella Blomkvist has a talent for attracting trouble and she’s as at home in the corridors of power as in the dark corners of Reykjavik’s underworld.

My Thoughts:

This book is set in Iceland and the whole story is about Stella Blomkvist, she is a maverick lawyer and is determined to find out the truth about a man who is found dead but things are not all as they seem, there are all these different cases that Stella wants to solve but can she solve them by herself? also will she end up getting into major trouble herself? I liked this short story, it had a great pace to it, it kept me engaged. Even though there are quite a few different characters in the story, I did feel as though I could keep up and remember who everyone was. The book has been translated and I think they have done a great job at that. It was intense, quirky and full of drama. I wonder what Stella Blomkvist will be getting up to next.

I received an ARC copy of this book for an honest review.

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