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The Quiet Mother (Paperback)
Arnaldur Indridason; Translated by Philip Roughton
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A lifetime of secrets. A murder that will expose the truth.
A woman is found murdered in her Reykjavík home, her apartment
ransacked. On her desk lies a note with retired detective Konrad’s
phone number. Days earlier, she had begged him to find the child she
gave up nearly fifty years ago. But Konrad, reluctant to reopen old
wounds, turned her away. Now, haunted by guilt, he vows to uncover the
truth – for her and for himself.
As Konrad digs into the woman’s past, he is drawn into a web of
secrets, lies and betrayal. Each revelation points to a hidden life
that connects her death to a decades-old murder – and to shadows from
Konrad’s own family history.
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Reykjavik Nights (Paperback)
Arnaldur Indridason; Translated by Victoria Cribb
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THE LIVING Erlendur has recently joined the police force as a young
officer and immediately sinks into the darkness of Reykjavik's
underworld. Working nights, he discovers the city is full of car
crashes, robberies, drinkers and fighters. And sometimes an
unexplained death. THE LOST A homeless man Erlendur knows is found
drowned. But few people care. Or when a young woman on her way home
from a club vanishes. Both cases go cold. THE SEARCHER Two lost
people from two different worlds. Erlendur is not an investigator,
but his instincts tell him their fates are worth pursuing. How
could they be linked? IN THE HEART OF THE NIGHT Inexorably, he is
drawn into the blackness of the city's underbelly, where everyone
is in the dark or on the run. 'One of the most accomplished series
of detective novels in modern crime fiction' - Sunday Times 'An
international literary phenomenon - and it's easy to see why. His
novels are gripping, authentic, haunting and lyrical' - Harlan
Coben
'The undisputed King of the Icelandic Thriller' Guardian 'One of
the greats of modern crime fiction' Sunday Times
________________________ A frozen body is discovered in the icy
depths of Langjoekull glacier. The victim: a businessman missing
for thirty years. The case: impossible to solve. Until now. Konrad,
the retired policeman who originally investigated the
disappearance, is called back to reopen the case that has weighed
on his mind for decades. Then a woman approaches him with new
information that she obtained from her deceased brother. Will this
be enough to solve the mystery at last? Can Konrad uncover the
poisonous secrets and cruel truths that have built up over the
decades? In The Darkness Knows, the master of Icelandic crime
writing returns with a powerful and haunting story about the
poisonous secrets and cruel truths that time eventually uncovers.
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Silence of the Grave (Paperback)
Arnaldur Indridason; Translated by Bernard Scudder
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Building work in an expanding Reykjavik uncovers a shallow grave.
Years before, this part of the city was all open hills, and
Erlendur and his team hope this is a typical Icelandic missing
person scenario; perhaps someone once lost in the snow, who has
lain peacefully buried for decades. Things are never that simple.
Whilst Erlendur struggles to hold together the crumbling fragments
of his own family, his case unearths many other tales of family
pain. The hills have more than one tragic story to tell: tales of
failed relationships and heartbreak; of anger, domestic violence
and fear; of family loyalty and family shame. Few people are still
alive who can tell the story, but even secrets taken to the grave
cannot remain hidden forever... Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger.
1945: a lost German bomber crashes on the Vatnajoekull glacier in
Iceland. Inexplicably, in the midst of World War Two, there are
both German and American officers on board. One of the senior
German officers sets off, a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist,
never to be seen again. 1999, the US Army is secretively trying to
remove an aeroplane from the Vatnajoekull glacier. Two young
Icelanders become involved but end up paying with their lives.
Before they are captured, one of the two contacts his sister,
Kristin. Her quest to discover his fate takes her on a long and
hazardous journey in search of the key to the riddle about
Operation Napoleon. WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION GOLD
DAGGER.
A man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat, and the police have
no obvious leads. The man lived alone and had no family, and of his
only two friends, one is serving time for an array of petty crimes
and psychotic violence, and the other hasn't been heard of for
twenty-five years.
Erlendur and his colleague Sigurdur Oli head the investigation
team. They find a computer filled with downloaded pornography, and
in a desk, the photograph of a young girl's grave and the cryptic
note left behind by the killer. Delving into the dead man's past,
they discover that forty years ago he was accused, though not
convicted, of rape. Now Erlendur has to follow his instincts when
his colleagues are losing faith in the investigation. Foraging into
the past, Erlendur discovers that the city of Reykjavik has one or
two secrets of its own, secrets it would rather keep.
Jar City is the first in a new and exciting series of crime novels
from the land of the saga, and was a runaway success in Iceland.
Over 18 million copies sold worldwide. The bestselling Icelandic
author of all time. 'One of the greats of modern crime fiction'
Sunday Times __________________________________________ When a
young woman known for drug smuggling goes missing, her elderly
grandparents have no choice but to call the retired Detective
Konrád. Still looking for his own father's murderer, Konrád
agrees to investigate the case. But digging into the past reveals
more than he set out to discover, and a strange connection to a
little girl who drowned in the ReykjavÃk city pond decades ago
recaptures everyone's attention. A brilliant, chilling tale of
broken dreams and children who have nowhere to turn.
__________________________________ 'The undisputed king of the
Icelandic thriller' Guardian 'An international literary phenomenon
- and it's easy to see why. His novels are gripping, authentic,
haunting and lyrical' Harlan Coben
A missing woman. A missing boy. Detective Erlendur returns -- for
the last time.
A young woman walks into the frozen fjords of Iceland, never to be
seen again. But Matthildur leaves in her wake rumours of lies,
betrayal and revenge.
Decades later, somewhere in the same wilderness, Detective
Erlendur is on the hunt. He is looking for Matthildur but also for
a long-lost brother, whose disappearance in a snow-storm when they
were children has coloured his entire life. He is looking for
answers.
Slowly, the past begins to surrender its secrets. But as Erlendur
uncovers a story about the limits of human endurance, he realises
that many people would prefer their crimes to stay buried.
- The final novel in Indridason's long-running Reykjavik series:
comparable to Henning Mankell's "The Troubled Man"
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Outrage (Paperback)
Arnaldur Indridason; Translated by Anne Yates
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Reykjavik, Saturday night He offered her another margarita, and, as
he returned from the bar, he carefully slid the pill into her
glass. They were getting along fine, and he was sure she would give
him no trouble... 48 hours later A young man is found dead in a
pool of blood. There is no sign of a break-in at his flat. The
victim is found wearing a woman's t-shirt, while a bottle of
Rohypnol lies on the table nearby. Detective Elinborg, already
struggling to juggle family life and the relentless demands of her
job, is assigned the case. But with no immediate leads to the
killer, can she piece together details of the victim's secret life
and solve a brutal murder?
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Hypothermia (Paperback)
Arnaldur Indridason; Translated by Victoria Cribb
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One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam at her
holiday cottage. At first sight, it appears like a straightforward
case of suicide; Maria had never recovered from the death of her
mother two years previously and she had a history of depression.
But then the friend who found her body approaches Detective
Erlendur with a tape of a seance that Maria attended before her
death and his curiosity is aroused. Driven by a need to find
answers, Erlendur begins an unofficial investigation into Maria's
death. But he is also haunted by another unsolved mystery - the
disappearance of two young people thirty years ago - and by his own
quest to find the body of his brother, who died in a blizzard when
he was a boy. Hypothermia is Indridason's most compelling novel
yet.
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Cab 79 (Paperback)
Arnaldur Indridason; Translated by Quentin Bates; Andy Lawrence
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Arctic Chill (Paperback)
Arnaldur Indridason; Translated by Bernard Scudder, Victoria Cribb
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A dark-skinned young boy is found dead, frozen to the ground in a
pool of his own blood. The boy's Thai half-brother is missing; is
he implicated, or simply afraid for his own life? While fears
increase that the murder could have been racially motivated, the
police receive reports that a suspected paedophile has been spotted
in the area. Detective Erlendur's investigation soon unearths the
tension simmering beneath the surface of Iceland's outwardly
liberal, multi-cultural society while the murder forces Erlendur to
confront the tragedy in his own past.
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The Shadow Killer (Hardcover)
Arnaldur Indridason; Translated by Victoria Cribb
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Reykjavik, August 1941. When a travelling salesman is found
murdered in a basement flat, killed by a bullet from a Colt .45,
the police initially suspect a member of the Allied occupation
force. The British are in the process of handing over to the
Americans and the streets are crawling with servicemen whose
relations with the local women are a major cause for concern.
Flovent, Reykjavik's sole detective, is joined by the young
military policeman Thorson. Their investigation focuses on a family
of German residents, the retired doctor Rudolf Lunden and his
estranged son Felix, who is on the run, suspected of being a spy.
Flovent and Thorson race to solve the case and to stay ahead of US
counter-intelligence, amid rumours of a possible visit by
Churchill. As evidence emerges of dubious experiments carried out
on Icelandic schoolboys in the 1930s,Thorson becomes increasingly
suspicious of the role played by the murdered man's former
girlfriend, Vera, and her British soldier lover.
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Black Skies (Paperback)
Arnaldur Indridason; Translated by Victoria Cribb
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Detective Sigurdur Oli is in trouble. After a school reunion
exposes the chasm between his life and those of his much more
successful contemporaries, leaving him bitter and resentful, one of
his old friends asks him to pay an unofficial visit to a couple of
blackmailers. He readily agrees, only to arrive to find one of the
pair lying in a pool of blood. When the victim dies in hospital,
Sigurdur Oli is faced with investigating a murder without revealing
his own reasons for being present at the murder scene. Moving from
the villas of Reykjavik's banking elite to a sordid basement flat,
Black Skies is a superb story of greed, pride and murder from one
of Europe's most successful crime writers.
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Outrage (Paperback)
Arnaldur Indridason
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Author of "Jar City" and "Hypothermia
"An Inspector Erlendur Novel
Arnaldur Indrioason is universally recognized as one of the top
Scandinavian crime novelists writing today, and in "Outrage" he is
at the top of his form.
Haunted by personal demons, Detective Erlendur decides to take a
short leave of absence, putting his female assistant, Elinborg, in
charge while he is gone. When a disturbing case lands on her desk,
Elinborg is quickly thrust into a world of violent crime. The
murdered man turns out to be a serial rapist, and Elinborg must
overcome her feelings of disgust for the victim if she wants to
catch his killer before he strikes again.
With exceptional prose, heart-pounding suspense, and a mystery that
is not solved until the last page, Indrioason fans everywhere will
be thrilled to return to Reykjavik in this outstanding crime novel.
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Operation Napoleon (Paperback)
Arnaldur Indridason; Edited by David Rogers
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""Indridason fills the void that remainds after you've read Stieg
Larsson's novels." --"USA Today
Prepare for sizzling action in a riveting stand alone thriller from
Arnaldur Indridason, the award-winning author of the Inspector
Erlunder series. Why is the US Army trying to secretively remove a
plame from an Icelandic glacier, and why are they threatened by a
young Icelandic rescue volunteer who manages to contact his sister
Kristen before disappearing off the face of the earth? Kristin, who
will not rest until she discovers the truth of her brother's fate,
soon is in great danger herself, leading her on a long and
hazardous journey in search of the key to the riddle about
Operation Napoleon. Flashback to 1945, when a German bomber flies
over Iceland in a blizzard. The crew have lost their way and crash
on a glacier. Puzzlingly, there are both Germand and American
officers on board. One of the senior German officers claims that
their best chance of survival is to try to walk to the nearest farm
and sets off, a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist, only to
disappear into the white vastness. Exceptional prose meets nonstop
action in this spellbinding standalone by Arnaldur Indridason, who
is critically acclaimed around the globe.
Inspector Erlendur Returns In this Award-winning International
Bestseller.
The Christmas rush is at its peak in a grand Reykjavik hotel when
Inspector Erlendur is called in to investigate a murder. The hotel
Santa has been stabbed to death, and Erlendur and his fellow
detectives find no shortage of suspects between the hotel staff and
the international travelers staying for the holidays. As Christmas
Day approaches, Erlendur must deal with his difficult daughter,
pursue a possible romantic interest, and untangle a long-buried web
of malice and greed to find the murderer. "Voices" is a brutal,
soulful noir from the chilly shores of Iceland.
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Voices (Paperback)
Arnaldur Indridason; Translated by Bernard Scudder
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The third novel in the award-winning Reykjavik Murder Mysteries.
The Christmas rush is under way in a big Reykjavik hotel when the
police are called to the scene of a murder. The hotel doorman (and
long-time resident of its basement) has been stabbed to death. With
the hotel fully booked, the manager is desperate to keep the murder
under wraps and his reputation intact.
Detectives Erlendur and Sigurdur Oli discover that the dead man had
had a childhood brush with fame and that two old 45s on which he
had sung have become prized collectors' items. Estranged from his
family for decades, why had the man continued to pay secret visits
to his boyhood home?
As Detective Elinborg investigates a separate case of child abuse,
and Erlendur continues to struggle both with his troubled family
relationships and the ghosts of his own youth, their parallel
stories probe deeper into the riddle of this latest Reykjavik
Murder Mystery.
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Jar City (Paperback)
Arnaldur Indridason
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A man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat, and the police have
no obvious leads. The man lived alone and had no family, and of his
only two friends, one is serving time for an array of petty crimes
and psychotic violence, and the other hasn't been heard of for
twenty-five years.
Erlendur and his colleague Sigurdur Oli head the investigation
team. They find a computer filled with downloaded pornography, and
in a desk, the photograph of a young girl's grave and the cryptic
note left behind by the killer. Delving into the dead man's past,
they discover that forty years ago he was accused, though not
convicted, of rape. Now Erlendur has to follow his instincts when
his colleagues are losing faith in the investigation. Foraging into
the past, Erlendur discovers that the city of Reykjavik has one or
two secrets of its own, secrets it would rather keep.
Jar City is the first in a new and exciting series of crime novels
from the land of the saga, and was a runaway success in Iceland.
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Oblivion (Paperback)
Arnaldur Indridason; Translated by Victoria Cribb
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THE QUICK A woman swims in a remote, milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises
from the water and as it clears, a body is revealed in the ghostly
light. THE DEAD Miles away, a vast aircraft hangar rises behind the
perimeter fence of the US military base. A sickening thud is heard
as a man's body falls from a high platform. THE FORGOTTEN Many
years before, a schoolgirl went missing. The world has forgotten
her. But Erlendur has not. THE SEARCHER Erlendur Sveinsson is a
newly promoted detective with a battered body, a rogue CIA
operative and America's troublesome presence in Iceland to contend
with. In his spare time he investigates a cold case. He is only
starting out but he is already up to his neck. 'His novels are
gripping, authentic, haunting and lyrical' - Harlan Coben
INSPECTOR ERLENDUR RETURNS IN THIS ICY, INTENSE REYKJAVIK THRILLER
On an icy January day, the Reykjavik police are called to a block
of apartments where a body has been found in the garden: a young,
dark-skinned boy is frozen to the ground in a pool of blood.
Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation and soon
unearth tensions simmering beneath the surface of Iceland's
outwardly liberal, multicultural society. Meanwhile, the boy's
murder forces Erlendur to confront the tragedy in his own past.
Master crime writer Arnaldur Indridason's "Arctic Chill" renders a
vivid portrait of Iceland's brutal, little-known culture wars in a
taut, fast-paced police procedural.
The crime: Reykjavik, August 1941. When a travelling salesman is
found murdered in a basement flat, the police initially suspect a
member of the Allied occupation force. The suspect: Flovent,
Reykjavik's sole detective, is joined by the young military
policeman Thorson. Their investigation focuses on a family of
German residents, the retired doctor Rudolf Lunden and his
estranged son Felix, who is on the run, suspected of being a spy.
The ex-lover: Flovent and Thorson race to solve the case before US
Counterintelligence can take it out of their hands. As evidence
emerges of dubious experiments carried out on Icelandic schoolboys
in the 1930s, Thorson becomes increasingly suspicious of the role
played by the murdered man's former girlfriend, Vera, and her
British soldier lover. 'The undisputed King of the Icelandic
Thriller.' - Guardian 'An international literary phenomenon - and
it's easy to see why. His novels are gripping, authentic, haunting
and lyrical.' - Harlan Coben
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