<p>If you're beginning to think we're obsessed with Icelandic crime fiction here on <strong><em>The Hobcast Bookshow</em></strong> - you may be right. We're delighted to be joined this week by our third great Icelandic crime fiction writer in recent months, <a href="https://corylusbooks.com/solveig-palsdottir/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Sólveig Pálsdóttir</strong></a><strong>, </strong>the author of the popular <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08Y5NPMKV" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong><em>Ice and Crime </em>series</strong></a>. As we explore in this wide-ranging interview, Sólveig enjoyed a varied career prior to becoming an author, including several years as one of Iceland's leading actors, before family life encouraged a switch to teaching, with the occasional appearance in TV dramas. But now her principal focus is writing further cases for her detectives, Guðgeir and Elsa Guðrún, translated into English by the brilliant <a href="https://open.acast.com/public/streams/646f7fb53c7f5e001173a62e/episodes/64c791ec8e16bd001152b6a9.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Quentin Bates</strong></a> and published by Corylus Books.</p><br><p>Also this week, we discuss the threat posed by AI-written low quality books posing as established titles. Is it time for online retailers to tighten up their submission protocols?</p><br><p><a href="https://corylusbooks.com/solveig-palsdottir/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sólveig Pálsdóttir – Corylus Books</a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08Y5NPMKV" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08Y5NPMKV</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>