Sounds a bit like a frozen pudding.
Elinborg has become a minor character in this one, her boss Erlendur is the major one. He is a rather tormented Icelandic detective, tormented by his brother's death when they were kids, about which there is some undisclosed mystery.
The plot features a Thai kid who is murdered and why? By whom? Quite good on Far Eastern immigration into Iceland, an issue which seems to trouble countries with no colonial history, Sweden in the Wallander books for example.
However, there is little strong narrative drive; turns out that the killer was a school kid who acted for no real purpose.
They're OK these books, but not great.
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