1945: a lost German bomber crashes on the Vatnajokull 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 s[...]
En eldre mann blir funnet myrdet i en kjellerleilighet i Reykjavik. Gjemt under skrivebordsplaten hans finner politiet et bilde av en barnegrav. Når man klarer å tyde inskripsjonen på gravstøtten viser det seg at det ligger en fire år gammel jente der, og at hun døde i 1968. Ved hjelp av fotog[...]
Vennetjenester er ikke noe for politietterforskere. Det får Sigurdur Oli erfare i Anger. En kompis av ham har et vennepar som presses for penger. Sigurdur Oli går med på å kontakte Sigurlina og Ebeneser, paret som står bak utpressingen. Da han ankommer hjemmet deres, finner han Sigurlina død. [...]
In this stunning prequel to his critically acclaimed Inspector Erlendur series, Arnaldur Indridason gives devoted fans a glimpse of Erlendur as a young, budding detective.
The beat on the streets in Reykjavik is busy: traffic accidents, theft, domestic violence, contraband And an unexplained deat[...]
En kulen höstkväll hittas en kvinna hängande i en snara i sin sommarstuga vid en ensligt belägen sjö. Det verkar inte vara något mystiskt med hennes död, men när Erlendur får ett kassettband med en inspelning av en seans kvinnan deltog i strax före sin död, känner han att han måste grä[...]
En kall januarikväll kallas polisen till en betongförort i Reykjavik där ett lik hittats mellan höghusen. En mörkhyad, tioårig pojke ligger där framstupa i en blodpöl, fastfrusen i isen. Pojken har stuckits i magen med något vasst föremål och lämnats att dö i den kalla vinternatten. Ett[...]
A man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat. There are no obvious clues apart from a cryptic note left on the body and a photograph of a young girl's grave. Detective Erlendur is forced to use all the forensic resources available to find any leads at all.[...]
A skeleton is found half-buried in a dried out lake. The bones have been weighed down with an radio transmitter: is this a clue to the victim, and the killer's identity? Detective Erlendur is called in to investigate and discovers that there may be a connection with a group of students who were sent[...]
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 p[...]
At a grand Reykjavik hotel the doorman has been repeatedly stabbed in the dingy basement room he called home. It is only a few days before Christmas and he was preparing to appear as Santa Claus at a children's party. The manager tries to keep the murder under wraps.[...]
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 [...]
On a cold night in Reykjavk a man lies dead, his throat cut. Arnaldur Indridason has been crime writings best-kept secret until now.[...]
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 [...]
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.[...]
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 a[...]
Inspector Erlunder has spent his career evading the phantoms of his past, and now he finds himself twice haunted--first, at a seance attended by the victim of a suspicious suicide, and again by the puzzle of two young people who went missing thirty years ago. There's also the ghost of the detective'[...]
Arnaldur Indridason, whom "The Sunday Times "calls "one of the most brilliant crime writers of his generation," has thrilled readers around the world with his series set in Reykjavik. In "Black Skies, " Indridason further cements his position as one of today's top international crime writers.
A [...]
""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 [...]
Operation NapoleonArnaldur IndridasonIn 1945, a German bomber crash-lands in Iceland during a blizzard. Puzzlingly, there are both German 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. He sets off, a [...]
THE MOST GRIPPING ENTRY YET IN ARNALDUR INDRIDASON'S CELEBRATED INSPECTOR ERLENDUR SERIES.
Arnaldur Indrioason, whom "The Sunday Times "calls "one of the most brilliant crime writers of his generation," has thrilled readers around the world with his series set in Reykjavik. In "Black Skies," Ind[...]
A man is making a crude leather mask with an iron spike fixed in the middle of the forehead. It is a 'death mask', once used by Icelandic farmers to slaughter calves, and he has revenge in mind. Meanwhile, a school reunion has left Sigurdur Oli unhappy with life in the police force.[...]