It is in France that he sells the most books. So, when Ragnar Jónasson unveiled a new, somewhat unusual thriller last fall, aficionados once again jostled at the gate. Because if the author from Iceland, also an investment banker, was used to writing alone, this time he made an exception for Reykjavikpublished by La Martinière, for which the local Prime Minister at the time joined him! An association that may seem surprising, and yet: Katrín Jakobsdóttir and Ragnar Jónasson are long-time friends. “ We wrote chapters one after the other, about an era that we both knew well, was exciting and full of change. », she explained to West France last year.
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“Reykjavik”: a disturbing investigation in Iceland in the 1980s
In this novel mixing news and politics, a young journalist named Valur decides to investigate a case that has been unresolved for thirty years already: the disappearance of Lará, 15 years old, employed as a servant by a rich couple on the very small hostile island. from Videy. According to her bosses, she left their house to try her luck in the capital, crossing the seas with all her belongings. As Valur dives back into the matter, in a crucial political context for Iceland which is preparing both to host the Reykjavik Summit in the middle of the Cold War and to celebrate its bicentenary, the threat is approaching and will soon make people fly in shine his life and that of his sister.
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“Reykjavik”: reopening of a cold case… with the means at hand!
Breathtaking and mysterious, Reykjavik takes the reader on an investigation… the old-fashioned way! Indeed, in 1986, we were still far from today’s cutting-edge technologies, when cell phones were still reserved for the happy few. Add to that endearing investigators and a snowy, desert landscape where the worst could have happened for Lará: you get this retro cold case, number 1 in sales in Iceland in 2022, which is devoured… frozen!
