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Published Jan. 30, 2019 by Orenda Books.

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978-1-912374-49-6
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4 stars (1 review)

Drugs, smuggling, big money and political intrigue in Iceland rally with love, passion, murder and betrayal until the winner takes all … in the masterful, explosive conclusion to the award-winning Reykjavík Noir trilogy…

The prison doors slam shut behind Agla, when her sentence ends, but her lover Sonja is not there to meet her.

As a group of foreign businessmen tries to draw Agla into an ingenious fraud that stretches from Iceland around the world, Agla and her former nemesis, María find the stakes being raised at a terrifying speed. Ruthless drug baron Ingimar will stop at nothing to protect his empire, but he has no idea about the powder keg he is sitting on in his own home. At the same time, a deadly threat to Sonya and her family brings her from London back to Iceland, where she needs to settle scores with longstanding adversaries if she wants …

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4 stars

The Reyjavik Noir books by Lilja Sigurdardottir are probably the fastest paced books I have ever read. No chapter is longer than 1-3 minutes of reading time, there's always something going on. Cage concludes the arc that began in the first book in unexpected ways. While the first two books were mostly about Sonja, a woman who broke bad by smuggling cocaine into Iceland to pay crippling debts, Cage is all about Agla. Sonja's former lover, involved in financial crimes, now in jail, making another woman break bad.

I don't want to go much into detail here. It's a stronger end than I expected after the middle book that bored me a bit. This one I just rushed through and got a mostly satisfying end, with all the storylines interconnecting. If you would like to read a Breaking Bad style thriller about crimes in Iceland, this is the trilogy.

Subjects

  • Fiction, suspense
  • Fiction, thrillers, general
  • Iceland, fiction
  • Lesbians, fiction