Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain

Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain

By Joachim B. Schmidt

Translated By:-Jamie Lee Searle

Genre:-Crime Fiction/Nordic Crime/Translated Fiction

Pages:-288

Publisher:-Bitter Lemon Press

Blurb:-A Nordic crime thriller with a difference. No gratuitous violence, no revenge porn, but a lightly plotted thriller that is chock full of humour. It is set in Washington DC and northern Iceland, both highly exotic locations.

An Endearing Protagonist: Our mentally challenges hero, described with empathy and psychological tact, is faced with two murders and the threat of more to come.

 A Prize-Winner. Joachim B. Schmidt received the Crime Cologne Award for the first Kalmann and the novel is shortlisted for the 2023 SpecSavers Debut Crime Award. As the jury in Cologne put it: "With Kalmann, the award goes to a classic picaresque novel cloaked in crime with an oddball protagonist at its heart. Schmidt succeeds brilliantly with the childlike, naive narrative technique of his protagonist.

 Kalmann is back! But he's already in trouble; in an interrogation room at the FBI headquarters in Washington, no less. All he wanted to do was visit his American father, but the loveable sheriff of Raufarhofn got himself mixed up in the January 2021 Capitol riots.

 Thanks to sympathetic FBI agent Dakota Leen, he's soon on a plane home, But not before she informs him that his grandfather was on a blacklist, suspected of spying for the Russians during the Cold War. Back in Iceland, there's a murder and one heck of a mystery to unravel. And what role does a mysterious mountain play in all this? Somehow Kalmann never loses heart. There's no need to worry; he has everything under control

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My Review:-Kalmann's father has invited him to America for a visit. Even though he enjoyed his time in America, things didn't go to plan and didn't end the way he thought it would. Kalmannends up getting mixed up in the storming of the Capitol on 6th January 2021 and ends up in trouble with the FBI. With the help from a FBI agent, Dakota Leen, he's deported from the USA back to Iceland. But there's one thing he's told from Dakota before he leaves.. his grandfather was on the blacklist, they thought he was spying for Russians during the Cold War. Back home Kalmann wonders if his grandfather dying, was really a murder. It's up to Kalmann to dig deeper into his grandfather dying, but in the meantime there has been another murder...

 Kalmann is a loveable character, you can't help but like him. The book has many interesting characters that will you meet along the way. This book has a bit of everything mystery, crime, murder, humour and a few twists. Even though I didn't read the first book, I didn't feel like I missed anything.