‘Thirty or forty years ago there was a rockslide on Beinisvørđ. And it was no small one. Guillemot cliff ledges disappeared by the dozen, seal caves were closed off, and the entire profile of the headland changed. What I think I remember, and I don’t know where I’m getting it from, is that when the dust settled the bones of a human arm were found on the shore unearthed by the rockslide.’
‘I’ve never heard of that, but so many a man has met his maker in those parts that it wouldn’t be particularly odd if skeleton fragments were found.’
‘With a shackle dangling from the wrist?’ I asked, peering straight into the editor’s dark eyes.
Norvik Press is delighted to announce that Deydningar dansa á sandi by the Faroese author Jógvan Isaksen, translated by Marita Thomsen as Dead Men Dancing, has won the Petrona award for 2024. Many congratulations to author and translator!
Dead Men Dancing is the second of Jógvan Isaksen’s series of novels about the journalist and amateur detective Hannis Martinsson to be published by Norvik Press, after Walpurgis Tide (translated by John Keithsson) in 2016. The novel begins with the discovery of a corpse on the beach, the body of a man who has been shackled to rocks and left to drown. As Hannis investigates, he comes across evidence of more deaths which have been caused in the same way, and starts to realise that they are all linked to a local revolt several decades earlier, which tore a community apart. The repercussions have continued to the present day, and Hannis’ enquiries soon put his own life in danger.
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