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Thora Gudmundsdottir (have I mentioned how fascinated I am by the Icelandic patronymic naming system?) is very… normal. She’s a lawyer, but not the usual sort you find in crime novels. She specializes in contractual law. When a German woman offers her more than her yearly salary to find out who really murdered her son, Thora finds she really can’t refuse. After all, she’s a divorced mother of two whose car is in the shop, yet again. Thora is matched up with Matthew Reich, who works for the famil
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I found this book to be enjoyable. I am glad to see it is the first in a series, because I'm curious about what comes next for the characters. It was a nice change to see a lawyer involved in finding clues and solving the mystery.
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The synopsis of this first Thora Gudmundsdottir mystery sounded really good, but heads-up the story inside is really gory. I usually don't mind "gory-ness," but this is pretty explicit. Gross-ness aside, the historical aspects, including witchcraft, were interesting. I was interested in Iceland, and I wish this story included more of the landscape and that I had more of a feeling that I was reading an Icelandic novel -- maybe that was lost in translation, though.
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