The Body in the Fjord by Katherine Hall PageMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Faith's friend Pix is suddenly summoned to Norway, along with her mother, to track down a family friend that has disappeared. Pix, equipped with a few supplies from Faith, and her mother joined the cruise that the missing family friend had been working on. With the missing girl's boyfriend dead, they are desperate to find any news and hope to save her in time.
The only thing that really bothered me about this book is that it opens with a prologue showing an accident. I realize that this is a common technique in mysteries to add tension and hook the reader. But I still find myself wishing the author could have found another way to do that.
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Tense: past.
POV: prologue in unidentified male third limited omniscient. Must be omniscient from chapter 1. Instant head hopping. Later limited to Pix and her mother, it becomes quite comfortable.
Deaths: page 4. Young man in falls.
Page 5. Eric, Kari's boyfriend. In offscreen accident. (Prologue?).
Page 7. Kari is missing.
Page 25. Kari's mother killed herself on Kari's second birthday
page 136. A member of the tour group.
Suspects: the tour group
Other: irrelevant thought. Page 16. Ursula guesses the pilot Einar Magnussen is Danish, because Dane's "sound like they have a potato in their mouths." Einar is not a common Danish name and the potato line is what Danes say about Americans.
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