Frozen Out
A dark and chilling Icelandic noir thriller
$35.26
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
20 November 2001
Summary
“Nordic crime drama at its best!” - Amazon reviewer, ★★★★★
“It was galloping along at a rate of knots, I couldn’t put it down” - Amazon reviewer, ★★★★★
“As chilling as an Icelandic winter” - Sharon Bolton
The discovery of a corpse washed up on a beach in an Icelandic backwater sparks a series of events that propels Sergeant Gunnhildur Gisladottir into deep waters …
Although under pressure to deal with the mat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781849013604 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1849013608 |
| Author: | Quentin Bates |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Constable |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 20 November 2001 |
| Weight: | 269g |
| Dimensions: | 133mm x 199mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Gunnhildur Mystery |
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Critics Review
Superior crime fiction set in Iceland… this is a well constructed, well written and satisfying police procedural– The Times
A meticulously constructed thriller, peopled with exceptionally convincing characters and shot through with black humour. Frozen Out is as chilling as an Icelandic winter.
Well written and absorbing. - Woman’s WayHe has the requisite nous. - Good Book Guide[A] crackling fiction debut … palpable authenticity. - Publishers WeeklyBritish author Bates captures the chilly spirit of Nordic crime fiction in what is the apparent start of a promising series with a distinctly appealing protagonist. Fans of Arnaldur Indridason’s Reykjavik mysteries will want to add Bates to their reading lists. - Booklist…his blistering debut reads more like an American procedural than the British product, right down to a denouement as acridly unsatisfying as today’s headlines. - Kirkus ReviewsAbout The Author
Quentin Bates
Quentin Bates made his escape from suburbia at the end of the seventies as a gap year turned into a gap decade spent in the north of Iceland. He worked ashore and at sea before returning to England and, once finally ashore for good, drifted by accident into journalism.
Finally the lure of fiction became too strong to resist. Sergeant Gunnhildur and the series of novels she features in have their origins in a deep affection for Iceland and its people, and an intimate knowledge of Icelandic society and its language, customs and quirks.
Today he divides his time between the north of Iceland and the south of England, translating books from Icelandic in addition to working on his own fiction.
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