Media Attention, Crime Fiction, and a Conversation with the Prime Minister

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This chapter focuses on the media's fascination with unusual or interesting homicides in small communities, along with the speakers' reading preferences and information gathering about death. They also discuss a recent conversation with the Prime Minister of Iceland about her crime novel and recommend other shows and books related to crime fiction.

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.

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