I trusted the first comments on the book to buy and discover the author. Big disappointment, background and form. On the merits, the story does not wrap, do not start, seems to be treading water like the archaeologists who put 340 pages to exhume the skeleton. I hope that the Icelandic Police is not as mediocre as our heroes, because a cop who would tell a woman it is the body of his sister before knowing the sex of the corpse, it ' is more than suspect. Then about family problems of our "hero", it's very cartoonish, especially his recurring nightmare of child lost in the snow ... In the kind "guilt problem," more subtle we do !! And the history of gooseberry, heavy, heavy ... On the form, redundancies ... I hate an author take so much care not to lose the small brains slow its readers. Me, it vexes me. Above all, and it's a SHAME, here are some errors (among many!) Raised over reading: p.248 "buried in the cemetery," p.257 "He was Icelandic ..." (upper case), " let me have you ider "(bad hyphenation), p.306:" Or may be good ... "(emphasis!) Not good ... Not to mention that Tomas is sometimes written Thomas! Berf, not worth the expense.