Arnaldur Indridason
Author
Series
Detective Konrad novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An elderly couple are worried about their granddaughter. They know she's been smuggling drugs, and now she's gone missing. Looking for help, they turn to Konrad, a former policeman whose reputation precedes him. Always absent-minded, he constantly ruminates on the fate of his father, who was stabbed to death decades ago. But digging into the past reveals much more than anyone set out to discover, and a little girl who drowned in the Reykjavik city...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 1945: a German bomber flies over Iceland in a blizzard; the crew have lost their way and eventually crash on the Vatnajokull glacier, the largest in Europe. 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 and sets off, a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist. He soon disappears into the white vastness. 1999, mid-winter,...
Author
Series
Inspector Erlendur volume 1
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
[2006, 2005]
Physical Desc
289 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 -li head the investigation team. They find a computer filled with downloaded pornography, and in a desk, the photograph of a young...
Author
Series
Inspector Erlendur volume 2
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
[2007], c2005
Physical Desc
293 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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....
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
314 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Picador/Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
[2009, 2008]
Physical Desc
323 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Following an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake suddenly falls to reveal a skeleton half-buried in its sandy bed. It has clearly been there many years. There is a large hole in the skull. Yet more mysteriously, it is weighted down by a heavy radio transmitter bearing inscriptions in Russian. The police are called in and Erlendur, Elinborg and Sigurdur Oli begin their investigation. It takes them back to the Cold War era, when bright,...
Author
Series
Inspector Erlendur volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
313 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 colored his entire life. He is looking for answers. Slowly, the past begins to surrender...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvill Secker
Pub. Date
2012, 2009
Physical Desc
330 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 with life in the police force. Iceland is enjoying an economic boom and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
THE PAST. In wartime Reykjavik, 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. THE PRESENT. A 90-year-old man is discovered dead on his bed, smothered with his own pillow. Konrad, a former detective now bored with retirement, finds newspaper cuttings reporting the WWII shadow district murder in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reykjavik, August 1941. When a traveling sales rep is found murdered in a Reykjavik 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 of Reykjavik 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
281 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Haunted by personal demons, Detective Erlunder decides to take a short leave of absence, putting a female detective, Elínborg, in charge while he is gone. When a troubling case lands on Elínborg’s desk, she’s quickly thrust into a violent and volatile situation with extremely high stakes. Soon, her investigation uncovers a twisted tale of double lives that may be connected to the unsolved disappearance of a young girl. The clock is ticking to...
Author
Series
Detective Konrad novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...