A woman's body is found frozen in the garden of a notorious ex-lawyer with a dodgy past. He has no love of the police and is slightly amused at being their primary suspect. He states all he did was find the body and report it. So where is the proof he killed anyone?

Add a murdered biker with ties to the same notorious ex-lawyer and you've got a rip-roaring who-dun-it. And when the death threats start arriving, he gets caught up in a world of crime, especially blackmail.

This was a very slow read for me ... I think it possibly comes from the translation. I didn't like most of the characters and the dialogue was difficult to follow.

This one just didn't do it for me.

Many thanks to the Trafalgar Square Publishing / Netgalley for the digital copy of this crime fiction. Opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.

NOTE ABOUT AUTHOR: Norwegian author and journalist Jon Michelet lost his battle against cancer. He died, surrounded by close family, at 73 years of age. (April 2018)

I really tried with this book but i couldn't relate to the characters nor get their names in my head correct to understand what the heck was going on. I gave up early on.

Oh sigh. I generally love Nordic noir but sometimes, as in this case, there's an air gap between me and the book. Michelet's mystery/procedural/thriller was a top seller in Norway but so much of the minutia about Norway seemed distracting to me. I tried, I tried but as is only occasionally the case, I DNF. Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC. I'm sure others will enjoy this as it is a complex tale.

While I liked the book especially the main character lawyer Thygesen there was so much unnecessary detail. Better editing would have moved the story along. It seems every book is about refugees now in Europe. We get it. You don't like them. Just once, I would like a book where its favorable to refugees.

Also too much motorcycle conversation.
I know it sounds like I didn't like it but I did because of Vaage and Thygesen. I would definitely pick up another book with these characters.

I received this book from #NetGalley

I really liked this book but I didn’t love it like I thought I would. I think that’s mostly due to the translation though. There are endless descriptions about not only Norway where the book mainly takes but also about Sweden. Since most of us are not familiar with the landscape and the different birds etc it unfortunately leaves you with skipping long parts of the book until you find out that you went too far and now have to backtrack. The story itself is great touching on the problem that most of Europe is encountering right now which is keeping track of the endless refugees entering their countries and the problems with drugs and prostitution. The characters are well developed especially the female detective Vaage. She starts out really tough and seems like she doesn’t care about people around her. She’s only interested in solving the case of the frozen woman who was found in someone’s backyard and not caring about who she steps on in order to make that happen. At the end of the book she has changed drastically and is one you would love to hear more about. Thygesen who is the one who found the corpse in his backyard is very strange but lovable at the same time. So all in all I loved the book and would recommend it to all fans of Scandinavian mysteries. I received this book from #NetGalley in exchange for my unbiased review.

I liked Jon's storytelling. He made it seem real and his characters were very life like. Vilhelm Thygesen is a former cop and lawyer that has been disbarred living off his inherited property. He discovers a frozen woman on his property. Stribolt and Vagge are the inspectors from Kripos that interrogate Thygesen. Stribolt wants to arrest him and Vaage, who's kind of nasty, doesn't.

They have a hard time identifying the body until by putting an artist's sketch of the women in the paper, do they get anything. It sets several balls rolling. It involves bikers groups, an artist who likes taking pictures on a train, and a oil mogul being blackmailed. More people are killed as a result of this woman's death. Finally people start to look at the picture of the woman and realize who she is.

This seems more realistic than some of the other police procedures you read. The characters seem to act more like real people in my book. I will highly recommend this book to my readers.

Sometimes a novel can be well written and captivating but still fail to connect with some readers. I am more interested in actions and facts and The Frozen Woman was bogged down by too much detail for me to enjoy it. For instance, one of the characters smokes a pipe and there are several references to said pipe, including its name. Now, if this pipe had been used to poison someone, or found as a clue, or planted as evidence, I wouldn't have remarked on it. But it's not…it's just a pipe. Many readers will appreciate these details but I'm not one of them. The characters seem disconnected from each other, which makes it hard to root or care for any of them. Lastly, the plot involves drug dealers, which is not one of my favorite subjects. Again, this is all subjective and MY personal opinion based on my likes and dislikes. It is undoubtedly a good novel and more serious readers will certainly enjoy it.

This was CRAZY suspenseful! I didn't know what was going to happen and by the end, I was freaking out because it was so good! READ THIS.