Haha, no, I'm just terrible. Sorry to confuse you! Yes, that sort of protagonist detective does seem prominent in mysteries, but much more so I think in Scandinavian novels. An excellent book for a gritty noir type of mystery but with an interesting edge to it is Martin Amis "Night Train"....

That's very interesting - I have found when reading Swedish mysteries that there is a distance there that unites very different authors. It sounds like there is a similar vibe to Icelandic mysteries. Maybe it's the Viking ancestry! I wouldn't have guessed there would be a similarity to the two count...

Nice to meet you, fallenleaf. I'm interested, which Icelandic authors do you read, and what do you find so compelling about them specifically?

This is the end of book two. What are your thoughts thus far?

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami

Book 2, Chapter 16
The Simplest Thing / Revenge in a Sophisticated Form / The Thing in the Guitar Case

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami

Book 2, Chapter 15
The Only Bad Thing That Ever Happened in May Kasahara's House / May Kasahara on the Gooshy Source of Heat

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami

Book 2, Chapter 14
Creta Kano's New Departure

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami

Book 2, Chapter 13
Creta Kano's Story Continued

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami

Book 2, Chapter 12
Discovered When Shaving / Discovered When Walking

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami

Book 2, Chapter 11
Hunger as Pain / Kumiko's Long Letter / Bird as Prophet