“Throughout its history the crime genre has offered up detectives of all kinds […] and it would seem as if there hardly are any positions or roles left available. Yet every once in a while, a crime writer comes along who still manages to bring a renewal to the table […] and that is the case with Heine Bakkeid. /…/ One can hardly imagine a darker acquaintance than [protagonist Thorkild Aske], but he has plenty of gallows humor to make up for it. And Bakkeid sure knows how to deliver a great Icelandic lava field atmosphere.”
Heine Bakkeid 