Satu Rämö  (2024) The Clues in the Fjord. Translated by Kristian London.

 Satu Rämö has written a trilogy of books featuring Icelandic police detective Hildur Runarsdottir. Hildur did her police training in Reykjavik, the world’s most Northern capital, population around 200 000, but much prefers the quieter life in her hometown Isafjurour, where she’s a child protection officer but expected to chip in and do everything from traffic control to getting involved in domestics.

Hildur is well up for it. She’s described as a ‘Valkyrie’. Chooser of the slain for the god Odin and arbitrator of who wins in battle.

Her backstory is her sister Bjork (aged 8) and Rosa (6) disappeared at the mouth to tunnel in their home town in 1994.

Hildur gets these feelings in her body. Premonitions.  When something awful is going to happen.

Like when a Finnish detective arrives Jakob  Johanson in Iceland and  on her patch of snow and ice, on an exchange programme. He is paired with Hildur and likes to knit. It calms him.

The Clues in the Fjord takes a bit to kick off. There seems to be a totally unnecessary couple of pages set in Summer 1550, Mosfellsheidi. Then there’s Rosa and Bjork going missing.

The Clues in the Fjord is described as an International Bestseller. A Global Bestseller.

I read lots of books. This is not a bad book or I wouldn’t have finished it. The mystery here is why this book sells so many copies, but books by authors such as Sooz Simpson’s sell so few?  

I’d like to know the secret.  Most writers would too and would pay in blood. Read on.

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