Writing in Ice: A Crime Writer's Guide to Iceland

If you had to choose a new location for a crime series where would you look? Michael Ridpath had to do just that. He chose Iceland a country of fjords glaciers and volcanoes of long manic summer days and long sinister winter evenings a place where everyone is on Facebook and everyones grandmother has spoken to an elf.This is his account of researching the country: the breathtaking landscape its vigorous if occasionally odd people the great heroes and heroines of its sagas and (of course) those troublesome elves; with a little bit thrown in about how to put together a good detective story.Entertaining and informative its a guide to Iceland for the visitor and a guide to crime writing for the reader.