Suddenly flying to Reykjavík, Iceland for hiking — I bought the new book called Reykjavík.

Icelandic author Ragnar Jónasson is well known. But this book was co-written by the current Prime Minister of Iceland Katrín Jakobsdóttir. Katrín wrote her master’s thesis on the Icelandic crime novel so she’s not simply along for the ride.

Reviews have been good, but I found the book much weaker than Ragnar’s usual.

It’s a cold case set during the era of the Reagan and Gorbachev’s Reykjavík summit in 1986.

A 15-year-old girl had disappeared in 1956. And many wondered if she was still alive. Or had died somehow while leaving a remote island.

The premise is interesting. The story very slow paced.

And the summing -up less than exhilarating.

Give it a miss.