Book #3 in the Dark Iceland series is set in and around Siglufjörður, featuring Detective Ari Thor.

Fascinating location. But I’m finding the translation to English quite simplistic. That’s surprising as author Ragnar Jónasson is the guy who translated Agatha Christie into Icelandic. She inspired yet another writer of murder mysteries.

On the shores of a tranquil fjord in Northern Iceland, a man is brutally beaten to death on a bright summer’s night.

As the 24-hour light of the arctic summer is transformed into darkness by an ash cloud from a recent volcanic eruption, a young reporter leaves Reykajvik to investigate on her own, unaware that an innocent person’s life hangs in the balance.

Ari Thór Arason and his colleagues on the tiny police force in Siglufjörður struggle with an increasingly perplexing case, while their own serious personal problems push them to the limit. …

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The 2nd book in the Dark Iceland murder mystery series set in a remote fishing village in northern Iceland.

Ari is the new local policeman from away, suddenly having to deal with the murder of a policeman — his boss — shot at point-blank range.

It’s a complex plot; tangled local politics, a compromised new mayor, and a psychiatric ward in Reykjavik where someone is being held against their will. 

Meanwhile, Ari & girlfriend Kristín have reunited & set up house with their baby son.  That’s not going very well.

I’ll continue to book #3 — Black Out.

The Chessmen is last of the Lewis trilogy.

Peter May is an excellent writer.

Former police detective Fin McLeod is back on the remote Scottish Isle of Lewis of his birth.

He found work as security officer for a local landowner.  Mostly chasing down poachers.

The opening of this book is fantastic. Finn and childhood friend Whistler happened to witness a freak natural phenomenon–a bog burst–which drains a loch of all its water in a flash.

Revealed below was a mud-encased light aircraft. Finn immediately knows it’s Roddy Mackenzie plane, a friend whose flight disappeared more than seventeen years earlier.

So it begins.

Book #7 in the excellent series about a Game Warden from Wyoming.

Joe Pickett’s been hired to investigate one of the most cold-blooded mass killings in Wyoming history.

Attorney Clay McCann admitted to slaughtering four campers in a back-country corner of Yellowstone National Park—a “free-fire” zone with no residents or jurisdiction.

In this remote fifty-square-mile stretch a man can literally get away with murder.

Now McCann’s a free man, and Pickett’s about to discover his motive—one buried in Yellowstone’s rugged terrain, and as dangerous as the man who wants to keep it hidden.

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But is there really a part of the USA where you can kill anyone legally?

The theory: There is a 50-square-mile region in Yellowstone National Park where sloppy district boundaries would make the prosecution of serious criminal offenses unconstitutional — in other words, a region where one could get away with murder. …

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EXCELLENT!

Out of Range is the 5th book in the Joe Pickett series by C. J. Box.

Our game warden is temporarily assigned to the Teton district out of the big city — Jackson, Wyoming.

Will Jensen, a fellow Wyoming game warden and a good friend, has killed himself. Joe can’t believe it. He takes the assignment partly to investigate the supposed suicide.

In Jackson the typical right wing citizens jostle with politicians, environmental extremists and rich out-of-State wannabe cowboys.

Books 6 is good too.

In Plain Sight — Ranch owner and matriarch Opal Scarlett has vanished under suspicious circumstances during a bitter struggle between her sons for control of her million-dollar empire.

Almost everyone hates Joe Pickett in this one. He eventually gets fired as game warden.

But in many ways, book 6 was my favourite in the series, so far. I’m certain I’ll be reading them all.

SEEMS I can’t watch the TV adaptation in Canada.

Sarah J. Maas writes young adult fantasy.

She got asked to write one book in a series called DC Icons.

This book kept me going. But it’s more of a cartoon than a novel. Action. Action. Action. No real plot.

Catwoman (Selina Kyle) debuted as “the Cat” in Batman #1 (spring 1940), she is one of the Dark Knight’s most enduring enemies.

She’s is a Gotham City burglar who typically wears a tight, one-piece outfit and uses a bullwhip for a weapon.

Eartha Kitt played the role in the 1960s Batman TV series.

Though mostly an antihero, Selina and Bruce Wayne are frequently depicted as having a romantic relationship. In one version, they eventually marry.

This book is Catwoman’s origin story

Two years after escaping Gotham City’s slums, Selina Kyle returns as the mysterious and wealthy Holly Vanderhees. She quickly discovers that with Batman off on a vital mission, the city looks ripe for the taking.

She teams up with Harley Quinn — the Joker’s former girlfriend — and Poison Ivy, her new girlfriend.

As Batman is out of town, their nemesis is Batwing (Luke Fox).

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Book 3 in the Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett series.

Great start to the story:

It’s hours away from darkness with a bitter winter storm raging when Joe Pickett finds himself deep in the forest edging Battle Mountain, shotgun in his left hand, his truck’s steering wheel handcuffed to his right—and Lamar Gardiner’s arrow-riddled corpse splayed against the tree in front of him.

Lamar’s murder and the sudden onslaught of the snowstorm warns: Get off the mountain. …

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This book introduces the most interesting character in the series ➙ Nate Romanowski.

Romanowski is an ex-Special Black Ops soldier for the U.S. military. An the “outlaw falconer” who loves his birds more than anything else.

I learn something about the rural American western culture each book. In this one a group called the “Sovereigns” is camped on Joe’s turf. Government dissenters from Waco, Ruby Ridge and the Montana Freemen standoff.

It’s intense.

Jeffrey Archer is now in his 80s.

His current series features police officer William Warwick, late 1980’s London.

• Nothing Ventured (2019)
• Hidden in Plain Sight (2020)
• Turn a Blind Eye (2021)
• Over My Dead Body (Oct 2021)

In this one, Warwick is moved from Drugs section to investigating crooked cops.

Archer is a good story teller. Good vs Evil.

Plots that are simple to follow.

Protagonists you can cheer for unreservedly.