Blair's Reviews > Whiteout

A fast-paced, easy, and most importantly very snowy read for Christmas Eve. The only other Dark Iceland book I've read is Snowblind, the first in the series (in English at least), so I've skipped rather a lot. Not that it has any detrimental effect on the reading experience – this works fine as a standalone. It has less of a 'classic crime' feel to it than Snowblind, and could have come from the pen of Yrsa Sigurðardóttir if not for the wishy-washy protagonist. I still think Ari Thór Arason is pretty useless, but the mystery kept me occupied and the setting is wonderfully atmospheric.

The ending is rather awkwardly phrased but I'm guessing it's been tacked on to the translation – it seems to be setting up a flashback to the plot of Fölsk nóta, the first book of the Icelandic-language series.

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