Iceland shivers with violence worthy of its noir novels
Iceland’s reputation as “the world’s most peaceful country” has been tarnished recently by a wave of violent crime involving criminal groups. Only 375,000 people live in Iceland, but they are more used to reading about murder in Icelandic noir books than in the country’s daily media. Helgi Gunnlaugsson, an Icelandic sociologist, remarked that “a gun … Read more