Today iit’s my turn on the blog tour for White As Snow. My review is written with thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me on the tour and to Orenda Books for my copy of the book.

Blurb:

On a snowy winter morning, an abandoned shipping container is discovered near Reykjavík. Inside are the bodies of five young women – one of them barely alive.

As Icelandic Police detective Daníel struggles to investigate the most brutal crime of his career, Áróra looks into the background of a suspicious man, who turns out to be engaged to Daníel’s former wife, and the connections don’t stop there…

Daníel and Áróra’s cases pit them both against ruthless criminals with horrifying agendas, while Áróra persists with her search for her missing sister, Ísafold, whose devastating disappearance continues to haunt her.

As the temperature drops and the 24-hour darkness and freezing snow hamper their efforts, their investigations become increasingly dangerous … for everyone.

Atmospheric, twisty and breathtakingly tense, White as Snow is the third instalment in the riveting, award-winning An Áróra Investigation series, as crimes committed far beyond Iceland’s shores come home…

Shortlisted for The Blood Drop – Icelandic Crime Novel of the Year, 2022.

Review:

White As Snow is the third book in this brilliant series and I enjoyed it just as much as its predecessors. It’s great to be back with Aròra and I love her practical yet compassionate approach to each case. She has a good relationship with Daniel, who is the detective on the case in this novel and I have loved seeing this develop over the series. 

The novel starts in the most hard hitting way possible, and it does not let go from there. Human trafficking is clearly an incredibly emotive subject, and Lilja Sigurdardottir approaches it in a way that does not shy away from the horrors of this crime. Her writing is so descriptive that I could not help but be transported to Iceland and imagine the freezing temperatures in the container and the pain and the fear that the victims felt. White As Snow is different to many novels that explore this issue as there are chapters from Bisi’s perspective, which explain exactly how she came to be in the horrific situation in which we find her at the start of the novel.

Throughout the course of White As Snow, we also meet Elin, who asks Aròra to investigate her partner. It’s not clear at first if the two cases are connected, but gradually they come together. Lilja Sigurdardottir is a wonderfully talented writer and her writing kept me hooked the whole way through as I tried to piece the puzzle together. There are a few surprises along the way, and the ending definitely leaves me eager to read more!

White As Snow is available from Amazon.

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