Snæbjörn Arngrímsson
Pushkin Vertigo
4 December 2025
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eBook - PDF
Crime
ARC via Edelweiss
Why did she do it?
After a day of simmering tension on a trip to an uninhabited island, Júlia snaps and leaves her husband Gíó marooned in the middle of a freezing fjord in the depths of the Icelandic winter, with night drawing in.
When she regrets her decision and returns, he is nowhere to be found. The police launch a manhunt, but soon their suspicion falls on his wife. She spins them a story to hide her involvement, but she can feel the net closing in.
Is Gíó alive or dead? In hiding or hunting her down? And can Júlia get to the truth before it destroys her?
I really enjoyed the first two thirds of One True Word. I liked the scenario and the setup, and it was interesting to get to know the background of the relationship between the two characters that led to the marooning. Their history kept the reader on the fence as to who was really at fault in the relationship and whether Júlia's suspicions about Gíó were true or not. However, as the story approached the end, my enthusiasm waned and I wasn't thrilled by the way it concluded, which felt to me both sudden and somewhat anticlimactic after all that had gone before, and full of potential plot holes that had me questioning whether it was even workable. As such, I am giving this book 3.5 stars. It started strongly, but the ending was a bit of a let down.
I received this book as a free eBook ARC via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.
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