Silence of the Grave is a police procedural in which a skeleton is uncovered and the detectives go about solving the mystery of who it is and how it got there. I found the police procedural part of this book to be quite enjoyable, with lots of twists and turns until it's all cleared up at the very end. Unfortunately, that was only about a third of the book.
Another third of the book is a detailed look at domestic violence within a family, which was really hard to read. Considering how graphic it was and how much of the book that took up, I feel like it should have come with a warning so that I was better prepared. Or the author could have shortened this story line so that it was more of a summary rather than a plot line.
The last third of the book is the drama between Erlendur the detective and his family. It was boring and irrelevant. Every time the book started picking up the pace with the mystery, we switch to a few pages of Erlendur sitting at his daughter's bedside in the hospital talking about his regrets.
In the end, I wish there were more of the police procedural since that was the best part and what was advertised, and less of the other stuff.
Readaroo Rating: 2 stars
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