After a messy divorce, attractive young mother Sonia is struggling to provide for herself and keep custody of her son. With her back to the wall, she resorts to smuggling cocaine into Iceland, and finds herself caught up in a ruthless criminal world. As she desperately looks for a way out of trouble, she must pit her wits against her nemesis, Bragi, a customs officer, whose years of experience frustrate her new and evermore daring strategies. Things become even more complicated when Sonia embarks on a relationship with a woman, Agla. Once a high-level bank executive, Agla is currently being prosecuted in the aftermath the Icelandic financial crash. Set in a Reykjavík still covered in the dust of the Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption, and with a dark, fast-paced and chilling plot and intriguing characters, Snare is an outstandingly original and sexy Nordic crime thriller.
My Take
Not exactly what I was expecting. A fascinating look into the world of drug smuggling. Don’t ever take someone’s baggage through for them! I don’t know how accurate any of this was, but it sounded plausible to me. This was the one remaining Nordic noir book that I’d acquired for our recent vacation there and I thought I’d read it while Iceland was still a recent memory. I liked the book and most of the characters. (Agla got on my nerves.) In fact, when the book ended they were mostly in a pretty good spot so I thought I’d leave them there, rather than go onto the next book in the series and make their lives complicated again. (Yes, I know they’re fictional characters.)