{"id":2239,"date":"2022-03-03T15:42:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T15:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2023-04-02T23:02:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T23:02:35","slug":"kalmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2239","title":{"rendered":"Kalmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Deeply heartfelt and gently humorous, <em>Kalmann<\/em> is as unique as its eponymous hero, Kalmann Odinsson.<\/strong> Self-proclaimed mayor of Raufarh\u00f6fn, a small town in Iceland\u2019s far north, early thirty-ish Kalmann is also the town\u2019s one remaining shark catcher and producer of h\u00e1karl, a delicacy made from fermented shark. But Kalmman\u2019s mind works differently from most people\u2019s. You could call him neurodivergent, but he just says that \u201cthings with me have never really gone forward.\u201d Then one day, when hunting a fox outside of town, he comes across a large pool of blood in the snow. This leaves him completely rattled, but instead of reporting it to the police, he goes home and watches Dr. Phil. Kalmann is called in for questioning the next day; it seems that a local businessman has disappeared. While Kalmann remains sort of focused on solving the murder\u2014while putting forth the theory that a polar bear could be the culprit\u2014Schmidt takes us deep into Kalmann\u2019s life, from his mixed experiences growing up to all he learned about survival from his wonderful grandfather, and from his bouts of loneliness to the challenges he has communicating with others, and vice versa. Still, the criminal element remains the rope that pulls us through the book. Schmidt\u2019s creation of the character Kalmann is no less than masterful. Can we hope that this is just our first foray with Kalmann?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deeply heartfelt and gently humorous, Kalmann is as unique as its eponymous hero, Kalmann Odinsson. Self-proclaimed mayor of Raufarh\u00f6fn, a small town in Iceland\u2019s far north, early thirty-ish Kalmann is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[61,150,64,59,55,82,164],"class_list":["post-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-amateur-sleuth","tag-disabilities-special-needs","tag-international","tag-literary","tag-mystery-detective","tag-small-town-rural","tag-star"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Kalmann-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Kalmann-400x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Brian Kenney","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}