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Sea of Stone (Magnus Iceland Mystery Book 4) Kindle Edition

by Michael Ridpath (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Can Magnus prove he is innocent of murder without implicating his brother? And can both men get to the heart of the twisted secrets that blighted their childhoods?

Oli and Magnus Jonson have spent years trying to escape from the shadows of their past. Raised by their grandparents in Bjarnarhöfn, a remote farmstead in Iceland, both brothers had to endure brutal violence at the hands of their grandfather. Now, two decades later, the past has returned to haunt them. When Constable Páll Gylfason gets a dispatch call to investigate a suspected homicide in a remote farmstead, he is surprised to find that Detective Jonson is already at the scene. Magnus identifies the dead man as his estranged grandfather. As Páll begins to review the crime scene it becomes apparent that forensic evidence has been tampered with and that Magnus' version of events doesn't add up. Before long, Magnus is arrested for the murder of his grandfather. When it emerges that his younger brother, Oli, is in Iceland after two decades in America, Páll begins to think that Magnus may not be the only family member in the frame for murder. What unfolds is a tale of familial ties and bloodthirsty vengeance, of isolated communities scarred by the tragedies of the past—and of a final, painful reckoning.

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About the Author

Michael Ridpath is an author who spent eight years as a bond trader. His financial thrillers include Final Venture, Free to Trade, and Trading Reality.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00MLDE564
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Corvus (August 1, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 1, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3397 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 361 pages
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Before becoming a writer, Michael Ridpath used to work as a bond trader in the City of London. After writing eight financial thrillers, which were published in over 30 languages, he began the Magnus Iceland Mystery series, featuring the Icelandic detective Magnus Jonson. He has also written two spy novels set at the beginning of World War II and three stand-alone thrillers: "Amnesia", "Launch Code" and "The Diplomat's Wife". He lives in London and Massachusetts. Find out more at his website michaelridpath.com .

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Nyssa
5.0 out of 5 stars Volcanoes, Murders, and Family Secrets
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2016
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Iceland's scenic volcanoes are erupting and throwing out enough ash to cripple air traffic to Europe. While residents and visitors are dealing with deepening mounds of ash, canceled flights, and disrupted plans, a murder occurs that hits police Sargent Magnus Ragnarsson close to home. Not only is the victim his estranged and hated grandfather, Hallgrimur, Magnus is the one who has discovered the body and has thus become the most obvious suspect for the crime.

After threading its way throughout the earlier books in the Fire and Ice series, the unsolved murder of Magnus's father in the Boston area fifteen years ago comes to the forefront of the story and ties in directly to the current homicide under investigation. Despite his brother, Ollie, begging Magnus to drop his search for clues in the case. Magnus finally decides to ignore his brother's pleas and dig, and what digging he does turns up a whole lot of new information, especially after meeting with the retired police detective who had handled the original case. Ironically that information leads him back to Iceland and his family.

Fans of the series will enjoy finally getting to the heart of the cold case as well as the investigation into Hallgrimur's murder by Magnus's coworkers. There are lots of clues, interviews, branches of the family tree, and family legends to sift through that tie all of the parts of the case together.

It can be confusing at times to keep track of who is related to whom and how, but the author was kind enough to provide a couple of brief family tree charts along with a map of northwestern Iceland to help keep the whos and wheres straight for the reader.

There's lots of good police work, shocking revelations, and a long awaited payoff in the form of an answer to the question that has been haunting Magnus and motivated him to become a detective.

Recommended, but please read the series in order to fully appreciate this one.
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Frank Paprota
4.0 out of 5 stars A Few Holes But Good
Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2022
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A good story even though some of the stuff concerning Magnus’ arrest and subsequent assistance in the investigation are a bit questionable. All and all I really enjoyed the way Ridpath writes and the series in general.
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Irene
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Detective Novels
Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2019
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I just finished reading Sea of Stone. I read all four books in the series so I'm going to write a short general review and not give too much away. First, I really enjoyed learning about Icelandic folklore and also enjoyed the deft way Mr. Ridpath was able to incorporate these tales within Magnus' family's history of betrayal, deceit, revenge and murder. I hope he does not end the Magnus stories with the fourth book. Magnus' loyalty is conflicted. He has one foot in Iceland and one foot in the U.S. It would be interesting to see in the end, which country wins out.
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A. S. Baesel
4.0 out of 5 stars Better Than a Heatwave
Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2018
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There was a 95f heatwave in Montreal while I read this. If I went out I felt I would faint so I stayed in and read Sea of Stone. Would I risk being convicted of murder to save my brother. Interesting question I had never considered before. Could a grandfather screw up a family unto the third generation. I knew and had lived through that one but it was interesting to think about. So, if the purpose of reading is to stimulate thinking then I think this is worth your time.
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John M.
5.0 out of 5 stars Fast and Good Quality
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2022
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This is a used book. The quality was fine as well as the speed of delivery.
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Jona E. Hammer
3.0 out of 5 stars Michael Ridpath in Iceland
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2015
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Fun reading, as part of the Ridpath Iceland-series. Ridpath obviously knows Reykjavík and some other parts of the country very well and makes an interesting connection between the world of the sagas and modern Iceland in the throes of economic collapse.
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David M . De Mille
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2021
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Everything about the book is wonderful, characters, Icelandic history, Icelandic name places, and great descriptions of on every chapter.
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Brian W. Coyer
4.0 out of 5 stars Saga's End
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2015
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I read Sea of Stone to follow the lives of identity seeking, persistent and smart Magnus, manipulating brother Oli, their wicked grandfather, and Magnus' complex and exploiting, extended Icelandic family, plus his continuing cross-cultural "romantic" relationship with liberated, impetuous, intuitive, self-interested, and clever Icelandic beauty Inglelief. There were several past murders and a few new ones to solve along the way. Ridpath follows inter-family revenge across generations and through this series and Icelandic sagas. I wasn't at all disappointed and enjoyed the read, learning a bit about Icelandic culture along the way. I'd recommend this Ridpath series, including Sea of Stone.
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Wolfischer
5.0 out of 5 stars O ritmo não diminui!
Reviewed in Brazil on October 19, 2022
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Sea of stone é continuação imediata de Meltwater, e assim como este, ocorre em apenas uma semana. O ritmo da narrativa é intenso, ficamos a cada página tentando desvendar os crimes, até chegar a última página. Neste livro a trama é centrada na família de Magnus Jonson, e não em crimes internacionais.
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Excellent quality. Keeps the bugs out
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 30, 2024
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Great story line
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Amazon-klant
2.0 out of 5 stars 'Over the top': een primitief, bijgelovig en wraakzuchtig beeld van IJsland.htig
Reviewed in the Netherlands on July 27, 2020
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In tegenstelling tot de eerste drie delen van de Magnus-IJslandserie, die zeer lezenswaardig waren, was dit deel 'complete over the top ', te geconstrueerd, ongeloofwaardig en absurd. Waar in de vorige delen een mooi aan de historische sagen gerelateerd beeld van het hedendaagse IJsland was opgebouwd, ontaard dat hier in een primitief, bijgelovig en wraakzuchtig portret. De boodschap die in dit boek is verwerkt - hoe opvoeding een persoon kan beschadigen - raakt daar volledig door ondergesneeuwd. Jammer!
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Rick@Canada
5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended
Reviewed in Canada on April 19, 2016
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I found it a little slow to start, however, it ended well and tied up the loose ends of the 4 part story. Recommended.
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🐭 Miki101.Micha
4.0 out of 5 stars Fire & Ice 4 - Magnus Ragnarson Jonson - a man...
Reviewed in Italy on September 4, 2016
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...torn between two identities - and two countries. Which made it very difficult for the Boston Detective - relocated to Iceland's Finest - to decide where he really belongs and where his loyalty has to lie. And to keep an open mind when it comes to the usual violent crime within his long dead mother's family.
For me this final one sadly was the weakest of the 4 books - it really shows the lot of hard labour the autor needed to fix all the loose threads. A trilogy would have been better because the old story about that still older family feud was at the end a bit worn-out. The characters became more and more fixated - there the Good ones, on the other side the Evil impersonated. And the curse of the family is carried on at the very end, and the Evil has won again and a soul was lost...
Magnus is only some kind of scapegoat - with obviously a secret plan, that will implode in the showdown with a reaction he could not have imagined in his worst nightmares. The other "players" like his brother Ollie, the uncles Ingvar and Villi, Villi's daughter being Magnus lawyer, the "demented" Grandmother and the others are acting often simply out of their roles. And Ingileif - who had been almost permanently trampling on my nerves for the last two books - shall maybe present herself as the future for our tortured hero? I would say - thanks, but NO, thanks...
And the first murders, the victims and their killers had been known to the readers for two books now. And for the more recent killings of Magnus' father Ragnar and Johannes' father Benedikt almost all the followers of the series centered their suspicions on or the one, or the other of two possible culprits. No surprise in the solution. And the old tyrant finally got what he had for a long time coming and also from the most logical person. Almost a sure bet after the burning-out of Granny's and Grandad's house...
I am really sorry that the book was in part so repetitive - all those long-known facts to be read all over and over again. OK - now the story of the feud is finished, but the end was neither a surprise nor really satisfying. So to say - let's get over with it, and the last man/woman standing can happily ride into the sunset...
I don't want to be misunderstood - the book is really worth a read. But thrilling? I'd say it is... entertaining in a certain way. Could neve be read as a stand-alone. But a must-read for those who know the 3 earlier books, that's for sure...
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