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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
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
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,...
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