Arnaldur Indridason

A deeply compassionate story of old crimes and their consequences, The Shadow District is the first in a thrilling new series by internationally bestselling author Arnaldur Indridason.
THE PAST
In wartime Reykjavik, Iceland, a young woman is found strangled in 'the shadow district', a rough and dangerous area of the city. An Icelandic detective and a member of the American military police are on the trail of a brutal killer.
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When a body is discovered in the icy depths of Langjokull glacier, a cold case from Konrad's past is reopened. The victim: a businessman missing for thirty years. The case: impossible to solve. Until now. At the time, an extensive search and police investigation yielded no results—one of the missing man's business associates was briefly held in custody, but there wasn't enough evidence to charge him. Now the associate is arrested again and Konrad,...

Arnaldur Indridason has been crime writing's best-kept secret ... until now. A man is making a crude leather mask with slits for eyes and mouth, and an iron spike fixed in the middle of the forehead. It is a 'death mask', once used by Icelandic farmers to slaughter calves. He has revenge in mind. Meanwhile, with Detective Erlendur absent, his baseball-loving colleague Sigurdur Oli is in the spotlight. A school reunion has left Sigurdur Oli dissatisfied...

Somewhere in the wilderness of Iceland's frozen East Fjords, Erlendur is on the hunt. For a long lost brother, for a woman who vanished decades ago, for answers. He has come to confront the family tragedy that has haunted him all his life. But it is another missing-person story - the disappearance of Matthildur, lost in a snow-storm decades before but not yet forgotten - which reels him in. Slowly, the past begins to give up its secrets - of infidelities,...

The loner Erlendur has recently joined the police force as a young officer. The beat on the streets in ReykjavIk is busy: traffic accidents, theft, domestic violence, contraband... And an unexplained death. When a tramp he met regularly on the night shift is found drowned in a ditch no one seems to care. But his fate haunts Erlendur and drags him inexorably into the strange and dark underworld of the city. - Features the young Erlendur: ReykjavIk...

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...

The only author to win the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel two years in a row, Arnaldur Indridason has sold more than five million copies of his novels in more than 25 countries. A detective whose inner turmoil threatens to consume him, Erlendur Sveinsson is charged with investigating the death of an Asian boy-and confronting forces colder than Iceland's frigid clime. "A remarkable series."-New York Times Book Review

Scandinavian crime writer and international literary phenomenon Arnaldur Indridason pens compulsively readable mysteries that have shot to the tops of best-seller lists around the world. When the U.S. Army attempts to secretly remove a plane from an Icelandic glacier, World War II intrigue erupts in the present-and threatens to engulf everyone in its path.

In den Tiefen des Langjökull-Gletschers wird die Leiche eines seit Jahrzehnten vermissten Geschäftsmannes entdeckt. Damals wurde die Suche nach ihm eingestellt. Zwar war ein Kollege des Mannes des Mordes verdächtigt worden, aber die Beweise fehlten. Kommissar Konráð blieb jedoch stets von dessen Schuld überzeugt. Inzwischen ist Konráð pensioniert, aber der Fund des Vermissten lässt die Erinnerungen wieder wach werden. Und Konráð beschließt,...

Ohne Abschied zu nehmen, ist Kommissar Erlendur in die Ostfjorde gereist, dorthin, wo er seine Kindheit verbracht und seinen kleinen Bruder im Schneesturm verloren hat. Jahrzehnte zuvor hatten sich in dieser Gegend dramatische Szenen abgespielt: Ein Trupp englischer Soldaten geriet auf einem Höhenpfad in ein tödliches Unwetter. In derselben Nacht verschwand eine junge Frau, deren Leiche aber nie gefunden wurde. Das Schicksal dieser Frau zieht Erlendur...