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The Reykjavik Confessions
The Reykjavik Confessions: The Incredible True Story of Iceland’s Most Notorious Murder Case | Simon Cox
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BASED ON THE CELEBRATED BBC NEWS INVESTIGATION 'gripping and bitingly cold... full of fine detail and outrage' – Sunday Times 'Gripping' - Evening Standard A true story of false memories. ‘Over decades and decades in Iceland people have gone missing without anyone finding anything out. They just sort of disappear...’ In 1974, 18-year-old Gudmundur disappears after a boozy night in a fishing town near Reykjavik. Eleven months later Geirfinnur, a quiet family man, goes missing from Keflavik harbour in the southwest of Iceland after being summoned by a mysterious phone call from home. Both men are eventually presumed dead, but their bodies are never found. This quiet island is in an uproar - two disappearances with no forensics, no leads, no clue what has happened. Soon, the vanishings set in motion an almost surreal series of events, a remarkable tale of corruption, forced confession, false memory and madness that stretches over 40 years. Based on author Simon Cox's celebrated BBC News investigation, The Reykjavik Confessions is a chilling journey of discovery into a dark corner of Icelandic history, and a riveting true-crime thriller that will have you gripped until the very last page.
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Not a fan. I‘ve been getting into true crime a bit recently but this was not what I wanted from a true crime book. It was dry and repetitive in places, not that gripping as a story, and a couple of factual errors about things I knew about made me wonder what other errors there could be with things I wasn‘t able to correct it on? I‘ll read more true crime in future but won‘t recommend or revisit this one

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