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A Place To Bury Strangers (The Grímur Karlsson Mysteries Book 3) Kindle Edition

by Grant Nicol (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.8 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
"A story as bone-chilling as the air his characters breathe…”

A cryptic message left next to a charred corpse in the middle of Reykjavík leaves police worried they have a gang war on their hands.

Across town Detective Grímur Karlsson investigates a missing girl from a nice suburban family and gets far too close to the truth for his own good.

It becomes clear the two cases are connected and Karlsson doggedly pursues the trail that leads from junkies on the seedy streets of Reykjavík all the way to the very top of Icelandic society.

'A Place to Bury Strangers' will keep you up into the wee hours––get ready to shiver the whole night through." – Matt Phillips (author of 'Three Kinds of Fool,' 'Bad Luck City,' and 'Redbone')
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  1. Book 3 of 5
    The Grímur Karlsson Mysteries
  2. Print length
    257 pages
  3. Language
    English
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  5. Publication date
    November 8, 2016
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    758 KB
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01N3U03HS
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fahrenheit 13
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 8, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 758 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 257 pages
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Book 3 of 5 ‏ : ‎ The Grímur Karlsson Mysteries
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.8 out of 5 stars 117 ratings

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Grant Nicol

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Grant left New Zealand over twenty years ago to settle in Australia but after many years spent maintaining electric guitars for a variety of indie rock bands in Sydney he found himself moving again, this time to Northern Ireland, where he first started toying with the idea of writing crime fiction. After ten years in Belfast he switched venues to Iceland where his first four books are set. ‘On A Small Island’ (Fahrenheit Press), ‘The Mistake’ (Number Thirteen Press), ‘A Place To Bury Strangers’ (Fahrenheit Press) and the as yet unpublished ‘Out On The Ice’ are the result of a lot of time spent indoors watching the weather pass him by like one North Atlantic storm front after another. Just in case Reykjavík wasn’t quite cold enough for him he has now moved to Finland to experience what a proper winter feels like and has started a new series of books based around the southern city of Porvoo.

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  • BJM: Amazon Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Another winner
    Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2016
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    Having read and enjoyed Nicol's 'On a Small Island' and 'The Mistake', I was eager to read A Place to Bury Strangers. The title alone was enticing but the first events - a grizzly death,our anti-hero, Detective Grimur Karlsson injured and a young girl escaping into the cold, dark night, hooked me into the story Add a Norwegian phrase at the Reykevick crime scene - I have found the place where you bury strangers - and the police have their eye on a known Norwegian enforcer. AEvar, Grimur's boss ( who is keen for the aging, difficult Grimur to retire) and Grimur differ on the approach to take with the Norwegian.
    Pay attention to the date heading each chapter. Once I figured that out, I was able to follow the back and forth of events which slowly revealed character motivations. AEvar needed to solve the murder, Grimur was searching for a young woman, Svandis who had disappeared, Knut the Norwegian had his own agenda and all events move along in parallel until it becomes clear how they intersect.
    Top marks to Nicol for the ending - it surprised me.
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  • Jo Perry
    5.0 out of 5 stars Nicol's dark, time-shifting narrative is masterful and powerful. Terrific book.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2017
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    Nicol's dark, time-shifting narrative is masterful and powerful. Subterranean and uncontrollable forces––greed, desire, lonliness, addiction––transport the characters who populate Reykjavik's back streets to often fatal moments of clarity––with Iceland's most dangerous and elemental geographic locations as backdrop--the massive and seething Gullfoss; the treacherous and icy silence of the forest; the tumult of the sea. Detective Grímur Karlsson, deadened by failure and by solitude, literally falls into the most important and dangerous case of his career, the vanishing of a prostitute into the night. But finding the missing girl reveals more than locating a body. Along the way Grímur discovers that he, too, is disposable, and that light comes from the most unlikely places.
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  • Westie
    3.0 out of 5 stars OK read but confusing
    Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2019
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    Liked the Iceland setting but the story had confusing jumps in time, characters appeared who had no place in the plot or sub-plot and a rather boring detective who seemed to do little useful work and achieved even less. Hope next book in the series is more coherent
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  • Doug Brunell
    3.0 out of 5 stars Crime Time
    Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2020
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    When I first started this book I did not realize it was the third of a series. Ultimately, it did not matter as the story stands alone.

    The tale told is complicated and jumps back and forth on its timeline, so careful attention must be paid to the dates in this Icelandic thriller. What you need to know, though, is that a detective, who is liked by none of his fellow detectives, is shot and nearly killed. A woman has gone missing. A person is killed and defiled in a brutal way, with a message being left for the police. And the police think they have the man behind both the horrible murder and the attempted murder of the detective . . . but they may actually have the wrong man.

    All the usual crime selling points are hit upon here: drugs, sex trafficking, murder, motorcycle gangs - you name it. Oddly enough, there are a few chapters that go fairly far back from when the story is taking place, and then nothing is done with those characters or their actions. Being as this is part of a series I have not read prior, I am unclear as to whether or not they fit in elsewhere.

    After finishing this, I was slightly disappointed . . . but I think I also want to check out the other books in the series, which says a lot of the author Grant Nicol. He has made a fairly interesting main character, and I am curious as to how he evolves.
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  • Gailtri
    2.0 out of 5 stars You need a strong stomach for this one!
    Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2017
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    I found the continual descriptions of heroin addicts just too depressing. I did not finish this book....something I rarely do
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  • jellybean
    5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't put it down
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 13, 2017
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    This is the third book by Grant Nicol I have read and his stories just get better and better. I've taken quite a liking to the main character although I get the impression he may not be around for much longer. I particularly liked the style of this story with each chapter having a date, not necessarily in sequence. My only criticism would be in the presentation, better proof reading perhaps. It doesn't spoil the flow of the story though. Loved it.
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  • Lupin
    5.0 out of 5 stars A good story with an unexpected twist at the end
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 3, 2017
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    I did enjoy this book, Grant Nicol writes well and gets under the skin of his characters. All written very 'tongue in cheek'.
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  • mikki
    2.0 out of 5 stars Two Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 10, 2018
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    Not his best
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