Icelander
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A Nabokovian goof on Agatha Christie - a madcap mystery in the deceptive tradition of The Crying of Lot 49 - Pale Fire meets The Da Vinci Code?Icelander is the debut novel from a brilliant new mind, an intricate, giddy Icelandic lore and pulpy intrigue. When Our Heroine's dear friend is found murdered, it's an obvious job for her mother, a legendary crime-solver and evil-thwarter. But her mother is dead, and Our Heroine has no interest in inheriting the business, or being chased through a sewer, or listening to skaldic karaoke, or fleeing the inhuman Refusirkir, or - But Evil has no interest in her interests, and thus: adventure ensues.
Author: Dustin Long
Format: Hardback, 240 pages, 134mm x 185mm, 454 g
Published: 2006, McSweeney's Publishing, United States
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
A Nabokovian goof on Agatha Christie - a madcap mystery in the deceptive tradition of The Crying of Lot 49 - Pale Fire meets The Da Vinci Code?Icelander is the debut novel from a brilliant new mind, an intricate, giddy Icelandic lore and pulpy intrigue. When Our Heroine's dear friend is found murdered, it's an obvious job for her mother, a legendary crime-solver and evil-thwarter. But her mother is dead, and Our Heroine has no interest in inheriting the business, or being chased through a sewer, or listening to skaldic karaoke, or fleeing the inhuman Refusirkir, or - But Evil has no interest in her interests, and thus: adventure ensues.