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The Living - Erlendur works nights. He's a young officer in Traffic, not yet a detective. And Reykjavik's nights are full of car crashes, robberies, drinkers and fighters. Sometimes an unexplained death. The Lost - A homeless man Erlendur knows is found drowned. But few people care. Or when a young woman on her way home from a club vanishes. Both cases go cold. The Searcher - Two lost people from two different worlds. Erlendur is not an investigator, but his instincts tell him their fates are worth pursuing. How could they be linked? In The Heart Of The Night - Inexorably, he is drawn into the blackness of the city's underbelly, where everyone is in the dark or on the run.

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 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 coloured his entire life. He is looking for answers. Slowly, the past begins to surrender its secrets. But as Erlendur uncovers a story about the limits of human endurance, he realises that many people would prefer their crimes to stay buried.

Erlendur est de retour ! Parti en vacances sur les terres de son enfance dans les régions sauvages des fjords de l''est, le commissaire est hanté par le passé. Le sien et celui des affaires restées sans reponse. Dans cette region, bien des annees auparavant, se sont deroules des evenements sinistres. Un groupe de soldats anglais s''est perdu dans ces montagnes pendant une tempete. Certains ont reussi a regagner la ville, d''autres pas. Cette meme nuit, au meme endroit, une jeune femme a disparu et n''a jamais ete retrouvee. Cette histoire excite la curiosite d''Erlendur, qui va fouiller le passe pour trouver coute que coute ce qui est arrive ...C''est un commissiare au mieux de sa forme que nous retrouvons ici!

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. While Iceland is enjoying an economic boom, his relationship is on the rocks and soon even his position in the CID is compromised after he agrees to visit a couple of blackmailers as a favour to a friend, and walks in just as a woman is beaten unconscious. When she dies, Sigurdur Oli has a murder investigation on his hands.

One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam at her holiday cottage. At first sight, it appears like a straightforward case of suicide. Maria had never recovered from the death of her mother two years previously and she had a history of depression. But then the friend who found her body approaches Detective Erlendur.

A suspected blackmailer is found murdered in this gripping crime story from the Crime Writers'' Association Gold Dagger winner, Arnaldur Indridason.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 arrive to find one of the pair lying in a pool of blood. When the victim dies in hospital, Sigurdur Oli is faced with investigating a murder without revealing his own reasons for being present at the murder scene.Moving from the villas of Reykjavik''s banking elite to a sordid basement flat, Black Skies is a superb story of greed, pride and murder from one of Europe''s most successful crime writers.

OLD CRIMES, NEW CONSEQUENCES THE PAST In wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled behind the National Theatre, a rough and dangerous area of the city known as `the shadow district'. 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 in the dead man's home reporting the shadow district murder that date back to the second world war. It's a crime that Konrad remembers, having grown up in the same neighbourhood. A MISSING LINK Why, after all this time, would an old crime resurface? Did the police arrest the wrong man? How are these cases linked across the decades? Will Konrad's link to the past help him solve the case and finally lay the ghosts of wartime Reykjavik to rest? THE SHADOW DISTRICT IS THE FIRST IN A MAJOR NEW SERIES OF NOVELS FROM THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER ARNALDUR INDRIDASON

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OLD CRIMES, NEW CONSEQUENCES THE PAST In wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled behind the National Theatre, a rough and dangerous area of the city known as `the shadow district'. 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 in the dead man's home reporting the shadow district murder that date back to the second world war. It's a crime that Konrad remembers, having grown up in the same neighbourhood. A MISSING LINK Why, after all this time, would an old crime resurface? Did the police arrest the wrong man? How are these cases linked across the decades? Will Konrad's link to the past help him solve the case and finally lay the ghosts of wartime Reykjavik to rest? THE SHADOW DISTRICT IS THE FIRST IN A MAJOR NEW SERIES OF NOVELS FROM THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER ARNALDUR INDRIDASON

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...

One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam in her summer cottage by Lake Thingvellir. 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 seance that Maria had attended, his curiosity is aroused.

Erlendur est de retour! Parti en vacances sur les terres de son enfance dans les régions sauvages des fjords de l''est, le commissaire est hanté par le passé. Le sien et celui des affaires restées sans reponse. Dans cette region, bien des annees auparavant, se sont deroules des evenements sinistres. Un groupe de soldats anglais s''est perdu dans ces montagnes pendant une tempete. Certains ont reussi a regagner la ville, d''autres pas. Cette meme nuit, au meme endroit, une jeune femme a disparu et n''a jamais ete retrouvee. Cette histoire excite la curiosite d''Erlendur, qui va fouiller le passe pour trouver coute que coute ce qui est arrive. C''est un commissaire au mieux de sa forme que nous retrouvons ici.

The third novel in the award-winning Reykjavik Murder Mysteries. 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 become prized collectors'' items. Estranged from his family for decades, why had the man continued to pay secret visits to his boyhood home? As Detective Elinborg investigates a separate case of child abuse, and Erlendur continues to struggle both with his troubled family relationships and the ghosts of his own youth, their parallel stories probe deeper into the riddle of this latest Reykjavik Murder Mystery. From the Trade Paperback edition.

THE QUICKA woman swims in a remote, milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises from the water and as it clears, a body is revealed in the ghostly light.THE DEADMiles away, a vast aircraft hangar rises behind the perimeter fence of the US military base. A sickening thud is heard as a mans body falls from a high platform.THE FORGOTTENMany years before, a schoolgirl went missing. The world has forgotten her. But Erlendur has not.THE SEARCHERErlendur Sveinsson is a newly promoted detective with a battered body, a rogue CIA operative and Americas troublesome presence in Iceland to contend with. In his spare time he investigates a cold case. He is only starting out but he is already up to his neck.

La muerte inexplicable de un vagabundo que conoció en cada ronda persigue a Erlendur, el novato de Policía de Islandia. Se encontró el cadáver ahogado en un pantano, pero el caso se cierra rápidamente. Asi, a pesar de la reticencia de sus superiores, el joven policia hasta entonces confinado a alborotos nocturnos y a casos de violencia... empresas nacionales en las aguas poco profundas de Reykjavik, plagado por el alcohol y las drogas

Reykjavík, 1979. Le corps d''un homme vient d''être repêché dans le lagon bleu, qui n''est pas encore aussi touristique qu''aujourd''hui. La victime serait tombée d''une très grande hauteur, peut-êtr