Rupture (Dark Iceland Book 3)

by Ragnar Jónasson (Author) Quentin Bates (Translator)

Rupture is another brilliant addition to the Dark Iceland series. I am invested in these characters now and this series has me completely captivated.

This book features a fascinating storyline about two young couples who move to an uninhabited part of Hedinsfjörður in 1955. When one of the sister’s dies it’s unclear if she committed suicide or if it was a tragic accident. The truth has never been proven. Ari Thór is determined to find out. Now, I love being at home and I’m perfectly comfortable in my own company, but we humans are social animals, and I can’t imagine living somewhere so isolated and cut off from the rest of the world! I would be climbing the walls within a week. I do wonder what makes people want to live such a solitary life and I was as determined as Ari Thór to discover why these people would willingly choose this lifestyle. I never would have guessed….

Along side this case, there’s a stalker on the loose and a missing child to contend with as well as the town being on lockdown. Not the easiest of times to conduct an investigation.

Brilliantly written, tense, atmospheric, I can easily visualise the setting as if I was there myself and I’ve never been to Iceland! Excellent characters who grow on me more with each book in the series. I can’t recommend this book/series highly enough. Another easy five stars for me!

I’ve already started book four, Whiteout.

1955.Two young couples move to the uninhabited, isolated fjord of Hedinsfjörður. Their stay ends abruptly when one of the women meets her death in mysterious circumstances. The case is never solved. Fifty years later an old photograph comes to light, and it becomes clear that the couples may not have been alone on the fjord after all…

In nearby Siglufjörður, young policeman Ari Thór tries to piece together what really happened that fateful night, in a town where no one wants to know, where secrets are a way of life. He’s assisted by Ísrún, a news reporter in Reykjavik, who is investigating an increasingly chilling case of her own. Things take a sinister turn when a child goes missing in broad daylight. With a stalker on the loose, and the town of Siglufjörður in quarantine, the past might just come back to haunt them.