Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Girl by the Bridge in exchange for my honest review.
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: May 2, 2023
Summary:
When a young woman known for drug smuggling goes missing, her elderly grandparents have no choice but to call the retired Detective Konrád.
Still looking for his own father’s murderer, Konrád agrees to investigate the case.
But digging into the past reveals more than he set out to discover, and a strange connection to a little girl who drowned in the Reykjavík city pond decades ago recaptures everyone’s attention.
A brilliant, chilling tale of broken dreams and children who have nowhere to turn.
My thoughts:
This is the 2nd book in the Detective Konrad series and has been sitting on my shelf for a while but with the 3rd book due out next month, The Quiet Month, it was the perfect excuse to finally get to it. I love a good #NordicNoir crime fiction and this definitely hit the spot.
There are a lot of moving pieces to this story and I loved how, with some patience, they all eventually came together. As with most Nordic Noir, this is a dark, haunting read. It’s slow to start, but once I had a handle on all the players and the different threads, I found myself really engaged and unable to put it down.
I love that while these books are set in present day, they often involve a tie-in to a cold case. And of course, there is the continuing thread of Konrad looking into what really happened to his father all those years ago – was it really murder and if so, why? This is why I love reading series and in order whenever possible. That continued character development and carry-over of threads from book to book. We do get some momentum in this one storyline and I’m quite eager to see where it goes in the next installment.
Books in this series:
- The Darkness Knows
- The Girl by the Bridge
- The Quiet Mother
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