Lawyer and amateur sleuth Thora Gudmundsdottir is brought
in by a local bank to handle legal ramifications of an
unusual situation. Icelandic contractor Berg Technology is
doing preliminary studies and constructing infrastructure
facilities for Arctic Mining for a mining operation in the
wilderness of eastern Greenland. People have been there for
nearly a year, but something has happened to unsettle the
workers. In fact, most of them refused to return after
coming home on leave. Two people remained on site, but
haven't been heard from in over 10 days. Now, all
communication has been lost with the remote site.
Thora is part of a team sent to the remote site by the bank
to investigate the problems. When it's learned that several
workers disappeared from the facility earlier, speculation
runs rampant among the team members. Did they get lost in
the snow, or were they killed? The explanation is difficult
to believe, but answers many questions when the
extraordinary facts are finally uncovered.
Nordic names make for deeper concentration to keep
characters and locations straight during plot development
of THE DAY IS DARK, but that should not stop you from
reading this excellent, impressive suspense novel by
Yrsa Sigurdardottir. If you are looking for
something out of the ordinary and unique, THE DAY IS DARK
will surely satisfy.
Yrsa Sigurdardottir is widely regarded around the world as
one of the best Nordic crime writers working today. Yrsa's
previous book in the series, Ashes to Dust, also featured
lawyer and sometime sleuth Thora Gudmundsdottir and received
rave reviews internationally.
In The Day is Dark, when all contact is lost with two
Icelanders working in a harsh and sparsely populated area on
the coast of Greenland, Thora is hired to uncover the fates
of the missing people. When she arrives in Greenland, she
discovers that these aren't the first two to go missing. The
local townspeople believe that the area is cursed, and no
one wants to get involved in the case. Soon, Thora finds
herself stranded in the middle of a wilderness, and the case
is as frightening and hostile as the landscape itself.
Chilling, unsettling, and compulsively readable, The Day is
Dark is a must-read for readers who are looking for the next
big thing in crime fiction coming in from the cold.
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