Thirty Days of Darkness
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Diana Croft
About this listen
Copenhagen author Hannah is the darling of the literary community and her novels have achieved massive critical acclaim. But nobody actually reads them, and frustrated by writer's block, Hannah has the feeling that she's doing something wrong.
When she expresses her contempt for genre fiction, Hanna is publicly challenged to write a crime novel in 30 days. Scared that she will lose face, she accepts, and her editor sends her to Húsafjöður; a quiet, tight-knit village in Iceland, filled with colourful local characters - for inspiration.
But two days after her arrival, the body of a fisherman's young son is pulled from the water...and what begins as a search for plot material quickly turns into a messy and dangerous investigation that threatens to uncover secrets that put everything at risk...including Hannah.
©2023 Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E. Turney (P)2023 OakhillListeners also enjoyed...
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- Bee
- 13-04-24
Bit silly
I wanted to find out what happened so kept going to the end which is good but it is a rather daft story.
There seemed to be a lot of, 'Hannah thought to herself "why am I risking my life to go unarmed into, this dark room, house, boat etc in search of a murderer?" but she ventured in anyway'...
I couldn't really understand why she felt compelled to get involved. Left me vaguely irritated.
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- Laura
- 21-07-23
Promising but uneven
I enjoyed the beginning - had no problem at all
with the comically rebarbative main character - but then once into the plot the pacing was very slow indeed. Long passages of pseudo-deep reflection ("maybe when we think about the dead ... we're really thinking about ourselves?") and just not enough forward momentum. I kept listening while doing other things, and made it to the end on 1.25x speed. Trying hard, quite atmospheric, and with some appeal, but ultimately quite disappointing.
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- cmulliss
- 18-07-23
Really entertaining
Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Loved the humour. Intriguingly different. The central character develops really well.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-03-25
Thriller or send up? It can't decide
I was expecting this to be a send-up of Scandi noir. The final chapters turn out to be a fairly conventional thriller instead, and the satire on authors and agents (low brow v. high brow, etc) gets lost. Hannah is an unlikeable and rather tedious personality for a main character. I'll go back to Henning Mankell or Yrsa Sigurdadottir instead.
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