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Leyndardmar Reykjavkur 2000
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'Leyndardmar Reykjavkur 2000' ('The Reykjavk Mysteries 2000') is a crime novel which was written by multiple Icelandic authors, each author writing one chapter. The novel received negative reviews.
The first chapter was written by Viktor Arnar Inglfsson and then the subsequent chapters by Hrafn Jkulsson, Birgitta Halldrsdttir, Arnaldur Indriason, Stella Blmkvist, rni rarinsson and Gunnar Gunnarsson. The final chapter was composed by Kristinn Kristjnsson. The book was printed in 8000 copies and distributed promotionally at bookstores. It was written in less than two months.
Kolbrn Bergrsdttir commented that the beginning by Viktor Arnar Inglfsson is fast-paced and successful and the following chapter by Hrafn Jkulsson has the funniest section of the book. This is followed by a clunky chapter
by Birgitta Halldrsdttir and a successful one by Arnaldur Indriason. At that point there is a chapter by Stella Blmkvist which steers the story into such a clich-ridden form that it can never recover. The story is ultimately "yet another addition to the failed crime stories which have been written in this country in the past few years"
Katrn Jakobsdttir commented that the initial chapter by Viktor Arnar Inglfsson is skillfully written and also comments positively on the chapters by Arnaldur Indriason and Stella Blmkvist. She describes the story as suffering from an overloaded plot and lack of verisimilitude. She is particularly critical of the characterization:
The Achilles heel of the work is the characterization. To begin with, the main character, Pll the policeman, is stuck in a clich which Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler popularized; he is a lecherous and drunk policeman with a constant hangover in his own private search for justice. The recipe for the character is one part Jack Daniel's stirred with one part sex. In Icelandic crime stories women have generally been even more clichd and this book is very much in that spirit.
In a later work, Katrn observed that the book was an interesting experiment and even though it had not been particularly successful it was indicative of the rapidly increasing vitality of Icelandic crime literature at the time.
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