This
novel was recommended to me by someone who knew I enjoyed Norwegian crime
fiction. Translated by Marlaine Delargy.
A
train accident, the passengers are taken to the nearest railway station in
Finse which happens to be the highest station on the entire Norwegian railway
system, 1222 meters above sea level. An historic
snow storm follows the collusion, wind speed the worst in over one hundred
years, and renders the passengers and the staff isolated in this remote place. A murder occurs, then another, sounds a bit like
Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None” doesn’t it?
Characters
are vividly written and I really enjoyed the parts about the storm. Alas, the
end was too neatly summed up for my taste.
Scribner
2011, 313 p.
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