Death at the Sanatorium set in Akureyri and Reykjavík

Submitted: 8th August 2024

Death at the Sanatorium

An Icelandic treat is in store!

Ragnar takes readers to some dark places. Wait until you enter the Sanatorium…

Are you ready?

Map of locations – Death at the Sanatorium

Death at the Sanatorium set in Akureyri and Reykjavík

BOARDING PASS INFORMATION

Destination : Iceland

Author guide: Ragnar Jonasson

Genre: crime fiction

Food and drink to accompany: hospital rations

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A novel to transport you to a sanatorium

Map of locations – Death at the Sanatorium

There’s always one guarantee with Ragnar – he takes you to some very dark places in his novels. Remember the vilage that gets cut off by the snowstorm via the only tunnel that connects it to the outside world? What about the island with a house of people and someone on the island who shouldn’t be there?

Well, that was child’s play compared to this. We are in a SANATORIUM. An asylum. A remote place with a chilling history. The present is pretty cold too.

“As a rule, Tinna avoided entering the old hospital wards of possible as she found the atmosphere there macabre; there were reminders of death in every corner, and the narrow corridors seemed eerie and oppressive.

“But the ghosts of the long-dead patients were forced to take a back seat now, because it was the chilling memory of what had happened to Yrsa that held everyone in its grip.”

I was astounded to learn that this place really existed. Shiver right there. The cast of characters is something out a Stephen King novel. Add Ragnar remoteness and isolation and you have a banger of a novel on your hands.

What I loved about this novel were the multiple characters. This created just the right level of confusion and fear. Helgi seemed the most ‘ human’ since he loves to read crime fiction. He reads to escape ( d0n’t we all) and that made me like him all the more. Then we have Boddi, Tinna and Hulda. Love the names in Iceland. It was great that Hulda has leapt straight from Ragnar’s crime novels and has jumped straight into this one.

The story, the setting, location and icy thrill as I read this makes me give it a firm thumbs up.