I wanted so much more from this.

The cover intrigued me and the synopsis intrigued me. It had everything I wanted and more.

But it became a formulaic, paint-by-numbers thriller, which felt more like it was written from a movie storyboard than written to be read.

The story is straightforward – Matthew now resides in Nuuk, Greenland, after a horrific experience changed his life. He accepts a journalist position and begins to create a little life for himself. Then a discovery – the suspected mummified body of a viking.

Things begin to unravel quickly when the photographers studio is ransacked and the guard assigned to ensure the body isn’t moved is brutally murdered. Matthew learns that in 1973 similar murders had occurred as well and then story bounces back and forth.

The characters were decent, although I was thoroughly annoyed with the first interactions between Matthew and a specific female character, and I found that even though the book was translated to English, the prose had a nice flow to it, with limited odd phrases.

Overall, I think this book was written specifically with the hopes it would be adapted to film, and it lost some of its depth for me because of that.

3/5 Stars

Originally published on Goodreads;

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2669253175?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1