The Shadow District, Indridason - C +

                                               The author, Iceland's best-known crime novelist, starts a new series here featuring a detective in WWII Reykjavik. The character is interesting, but the story in this one just flops. My only worthwhile takeaway is that I've learned that Iceland was occupied by the British, then the US, and declared its independence from Denmark  establishing a new republic in June, 1944.