Arctic Chill
In this new extraordinary thriller from Gold Dagger Award winner Arnaldur Indridason, the Reykjavik police are called on an icy January day to a garden where a body has been found: a young, dark-skinned boy is frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. Erlendur and his team embark on their...
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In this new extraordinary thriller from Gold Dagger Award winner Arnaldur Indridason, the Reykjavik police are called on an icy January day to a garden where a body has been found: a young, dark-skinned boy is frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation and soon unearth tensions simmering beneath the surface of Iceland’s outwardly liberal, multicultural society. Meanwhile, the boy’s murder forces Erlendur to confront the tragedy in his own past. Soon, facts are emerging from the snow-filled darkness that are more chilling even than the Arctic night.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781429963442 (1429963441)
Publish date: August 31st 2010
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
European Literature,
Adult,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Noir,
Suspense,
Scandinavian Literature,
Swedish Literature
Series: Reykjavík Murder Mystery (#7)
bookshelves: summer-2013, published-2005, series, mystery-thriller, e-book, iceland, translation Read from June 21 to 22, 2013 'ð'is a 'th' sound, much the same a dd in Welsh!5* Jar City3* HypothermiaCR Arctic Chill On an icy January day the Reykjavík police are called to a block of flats wher...
While an interesting look at Icelandic society and the struggles immigrants have adapting to both the extreme weather conditions and the rather insular culture, this entry just was not quite up to its predecessors high quality in both plot and writing flow.
'ð'is a 'th' sound, much the same a dd in Welsh!5* Jar City3* HypothermiaCR Arctic Chill
Really liked this. It's very fragmented but somehow that just adds to the mood without causing confusion so I think it must have been well constructed. Yes a boy dies - and sets off cascades of actions and feelings in everyone - but otherwise an oddly gentle book.
This excellent, if characteristically sad chapter in the Inspector Erlendur series follows the team as they work through the murder of Thai child in a Reykjavik housing project -- a crime which has laid bare the rise of anti-immigrant sentiment amid Iceland's economic stagnation. As always, the per...
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