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Criminal

Iceland Noir

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.738.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Iceland is one of the most peaceful countries in the world, but people there love to read about crime. Even the Prime Minister of Iceland has written a crime novel. We stopped by her office to ask why. Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir and Ragnar Jónasson's book is Reykjavík. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, members-only merch, and more. Learn more and sign up here. Listen back through our archives at youtube.com/criminalpodcast. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. The nature in Iceland is very dangerous.

0:35.0

You know, wherever you are, whatever time of year,

0:40.0

if you go up into the highlands, which you know,

0:42.0

most of Iceland is just the highlands and we just live on the sort of on the coastline.

0:47.3

But if you go up to the highlands by yourself, whatever time of year, even in the height of summer, nature can be very cruel.

0:55.0

Lawyer and writer Ragner Jonison.

0:58.0

It's a dangerous place to be if you don't know what you're doing.

1:01.0

And that's like a common theme in a lot of the crime fiction in Iceland.

1:05.0

Iceland is a dangerous place, but crime is incredibly rare.

1:12.0

There were only four homicides. Crime is incredibly rare.

1:13.0

There were only four homicides in the entire country last year,

1:17.8

up from just two in 2021.

1:21.8

What do you think makes Iceland such a good place to set crime fiction?

1:27.0

I mean it is the contrast you know you have this snow covering the whole you know country and then you have this one drop of

1:34.8

plot you know and the contrast in that is it's quite strong and that's you know this

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