On an icy January day, the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his stomach extinguishes any hope that this was a tragic accident. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation with little to go on but the news that the boy’s Thai half-brother is missing. Is he implicated, or simply afraid for his own life? The investigation soon unearths tensions simmering beneath the surface of Iceland’s outwardly liberal, multicultural society. The boy’s murder forces Erlendur to confront a tragedy in his own past. Soon, facts are emerging from the snow-filled darkness that are more chilling even than the Arctic night....

The latest installment in the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Award–winning Reykjavik Murder Mystery series.

One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam in her summer cottage. At first sight it appears to be a straightforward case of suicide; the woman, María, had never recovered from the loss of her mother two years earlier and had a history of depression. But when Karen, the friend who found her body, approaches Erlendur and gives him the tape of a séance that María had attended, his curiosity is aroused.

Driven by a need to find answers, Erlendur embarks on an unofficial investigation to find out why the woman’s life ended in such an abrupt and tragic manner. At the same time, he is haunted by the unresolved cases of two young people who went missing thirty years before, and, inevitably, his discoveries raise ghosts from his own past....

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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. Delving into the dead man's life Detective Erlendur discovers that forty years ago he was accused of an appalling crime, but never convicted. Had his past come back to haunt him? As Erlendur struggles to build a relationship with his unhappy daughter, his investigation takes him to Iceland's Genetic Research Centre, where he uncovers disturbing secrets that are even darker than the murder of an old man. Jar City is the first book in the series starring Detective Erlendur available in English ...

The Shadow Killer is the extraordinary second book in the compelling new series from award-winning Icelandic author Arnaldur Indridason, following The Shadow District. "Indridason is an international literary phenom." –Harlan Coben "Puts Iceland on the map as a major destination for enthusiasts of Nordic crime fiction." –Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review "One of the most brilliant crime writers of his generation."–The London Sunday Times "No wonder Arnaldur Indridason won so many awards. He's a great storyteller, and American readers will overwhelmingly agree." –C.J. Box A man is found murdered in a small apartment in Reykjavík, shot in the head with a pistol. The police’s attention is immediately drawn to the foreign soldiers who are on every street corner in the summer of 1941. So begins officers Flóvent and Thorson’s investigation, which will lead them down a path darker than either of them expected, and force them to reckon with their own demons. ...

Les touristes affluent en Islande et les glaciers reculent lentement. Le cadavre d'un homme d'affaires disparu depuis trente ans émerge du glacier de Langjökull. Son associé de l'époque est de nouveau arrêté, et Konrad, policier à la retraite, doit reprendre bien malgré lui une enquête qui a toujours pesé sur sa conscience. Au moment où il pensait vivre sa douleur dans la solitude – son père menteur et escroc a été assassiné sans que l'affaire soit jamais élucidée et l'amour de sa vie vient de mourir d'un cancer –, Konrad est pressé par le principal suspect, mourant, de découvrir la vérité. Seul le témoignage d'une femme qui vient lui raconter l'histoire de son frère tué par un chauffard pourrait l'aider à avancer... Dans la lignée de Simenon, Indridason excelle dans la construction d'un environnement social et affectif soigné et captivant, et dévoile peu à peu le passé trouble de ce nouvel enquêteur, jetant une lumière crue sur sa personnalité. Un beau roman noir sensible aux rebondissements surprenants....