A small upstate New York town full of oddballs, shysters, and a mobster or two is the setting for a murder mystery trilogy featuring Lt. Thomas Shard and Sgts. Knut Johnsen, and Sharon Periwinkle of the Leyden Sheriff's Department detective squad. While Shard putters around in his 1954 Morgan roadster and Johnsen, the "Norseman," incessantly retells bits of Icelandic sagas learned at his grandfather's knee, tech-saavy Periwinkle labors to bring the whole operation into the digital age. Together, the detectives meld local culture and 1,000 year old Icelandic stories to bring killers to justice.
