The Fire Pit (Faroes novel 3)
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4.6 • 25 Ratings
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Publisher Description
THE FIRE PIT IS THE THIRD BOOK IN THE FAROES NOVEL SERIES, FOLLOWING ON FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED THE KILLING BAY
In the wake of a dying man's apparent suicide, the skeleton of a young woman is discovered on a windswept hillside. Detective Hjalti Hentze suspects that it is the body of a Norwegian woman reported missing forty years earlier, while a commune occupied the land, and whose death may be linked to the abduction and rape of a local Faroese girl.
Meanwhile British DI Jan Reyna is pursing his investigation into his mother's suicide. But as he learns more about her final days, links between the two cases start to appear: a conspiracy of murder and abuse spanning four decades. And as Hentze puts the same pieces together, he realizes that Reyna is willing to go further than ever before to learn the truth...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Ould's skillfully plotted third novel set on the Faroe Islands (after 2017's The Killing Bay), a dying man's apparent suicide leads to the discovery of a skeleton concealed in a crumbling stone wall. Det. Hjalti Hentze believes the remains are those of a missing Norwegian woman who was last seen in a commune occupying the site 40 years before. There may also be a connection to a 40-year-old case of abduction and rape. Meanwhile, Faroes-born Jan Reyna, who has recently quit his job as a detective inspector with the British police, is trying to learn more about the suicide of his mother 40 years earlier when he was a small child. The cases turn out to be entwined and somehow connected to the disbanded Vesborgg rd House clinic. Multiple overlapping stories and a plethora of names unfamiliar to English-speaking readers slow the first few chapters, but the action soon picks up, propelled in part by the cast of well-drawn characters. Readers will look forward to Ould's next outing to the Faroes.
