… there is no recipe for stories, let alone novels, and neither for truth …

A succulent story about crime and punishment in a small Icelandic fishing village two hundred years ago.

In Tangavik two hundred years ago, dangerous ideas run rampant; ideas about justice and equality. Secretly, people are plotting to free the rich from the wealth that weighs them down, but when it comes down to it, the authorities are not amused. Crimes threaten society’s values, and it is vitally important to suppress dissent and rebellion; find the guilty, judge harshly and punish cruelly.
Many of the colourful threads from Einar’s previous novel, Poetic Criminology, are spun forward in various directions:

a desire for freedom is ignited and suffocated, imperfect characters run out of control, family ties prosper, the sequence of events collapses and jumps over years and centuries, fiction and history contend with truth and lies, right and wrong – and all of this comes together in a magically twisted web in the author’s celebrated style.

“Rightly Judged is magnificent, lavish, generous, and extravagant … I believe this generous novel deserves all my accolades.”
BJØRN BREDAL, POLITIKEN

“A profoundly well crafted piece of writing, imaginative, posing questions that speak to the present times.”
SKAFTI TH. HALLDORSSON

“Einar’s narration is lively and entertaining, the narrator is companionable and appropriately carefree, jumps back and forth in time, turns on and off and repeats himself, sometimes to move the story forward, sometimes to mislead us or to talk about something that seems unimportant, but then turns out to be significant … Exceptionally entertaining books by a great master storyteller who has his heart in the right place (it beats for the underdog).”
ARNI MATTHIASSON

“In a conversational storytelling style seasoned with understated humor, the author weaves past and present together in the best possible way, creating an entertaining story with much to ponder.”
MARGIT ANDERSON, WWW.KOMMUNIST.DK

“Gudmundsson is a born storyteller … a masterpiece!”
POLITIKEN, DENMARK (on Dog Days)