the pen by Martine Laval:
The Seventh Son, Arni Thorarinsson, Polar Publishing Métailié.
Iceland was until recently, an unknown country, if not forgotten. Since the seven novels translated in France by Arnaldur Indridason (Métailié ed.), since a financial crisis insane (2009), since a volcano (the unpronounceable name ...) has caused panic on the entire planet in May Iceland is now (almost) part of Europe. Iceland wakes up then, but with a hangover, what worries the authors of crime novels. The third novel by journalist Arni Thorarinsson anchored in the fjords of the west and back in the saddle Einar, a reporter and detective idler despite himself, already met in The Time of Witch and The Beastmaster insects. Einar, driven by an unscrupulous editor, tracking the scoop in a sleeping city, Isafjördur. He is bored farm, attends the disaster of the press (drop in sales and fall of the liberty of writing), is stuck with crooked politicians, kids misfits, stars not yet revealed, frightened immigrants. In an atmosphere at dusk, it confronts the cold ... and some disasters that forced him to wake arson, grave desecration, drug trafficking ...
Radically less gloomy than the terrible Black Ocean Stefan Mani (ed. Gallimard, coll. Series Black, 2010), Seventh Son plays the card of tender humor. Einar, who also has a few problems of the heart, stirs in Iceland known tour operators. The volcanic island has flaws. Now, she cracks, and fractures flaws social policies, it loses the north. Arni wrote Thorarinsson his country, a nation lost in globalization, but when all hope!
Martine Laval
Telerama No. 3169 - October 9, 2010
