Thirty Days Of Darkness by Jenny Lund Madsen ~ Review & Blog Tour

Copenhagen author Hannah is the darling of the literary community and her novels have achieved massive critical acclaim. But nobody actually reads them, and frustrated by writer`s block, Hannah has the feeling that she`s doing something wrong.

When she expresses her contempt for genre fiction, Hanna is publicly challenged to write a crime novel in thirty days. Scared that she will lose face, she accepts, and her editor sends her to Húsafjöður – a quiet, tight-knit village in Iceland, filled with colourful local characters – for inspiration.

But two days after her arrival, the body of a fisherman´s young son is pulled from the water … and what begins as a search for plot material quickly turns into a messy and dangerous investigation that threatens to uncover secrets that put everything at risk … including Hannah…

Atmospheric, dramatic and full of nerve-jangling twists and turns, Thirty Days of Darkness is a darkly funny, unsettling debut Nordic Noir thriller that marks the start of a breath-taking new series.

I loved this book! There was something about it that just gripped me from the start and then I found that I couldn’t put it down! I thought that our main character Hannah, was a little stuck up to start with but then I really came to like her. I think one of the things that I liked was the range of emotions that she went through in the book - some of which were a real surprise to her!

I loved how, despite the fact that Hannah was clearly not a people person she did actually form relationships with some of the other characters fairly quickly, even though one of those was an ongoing dislike of one of them! The storyline itself was intriguing, it definitely felt as though there were hidden secrets from the start, you just weren’t sure who it was keeping them.

I liked the fact that there wasn’t a clear front runner for who the murderer was, and the fact that there were times when there could have been multiple suspects and then none! I thought this was really well written and I loved the fact that it was set in Iceland and the description of the daylight hours (or lack of!). The ending was great and I loved some of those last chapters when it all became clear. I’d love to hear more from Hannah and our other main supporting characters.

Huge thanks to Random Things Tours, Jenny Lund Madsen & Orenda Books for my place on the blog tour.