In Silence of the Grave, a corpse is found on a hill outside the city, and Detective Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson and his team think the body may have been buried for some years. Presented by the British Crime Writers’ Association, previous winners of this award include John Le Carre, Minette Walters, Henning Mankell, and James Lee Burke. And now, Silence of the Grave, the next in this stunning series has won the coveted Golden Dagger Award. Holger Kreitling, Die Welt GermanyLast year Jar City introduced international crime writing sensation Arnaldur Indridason to rave reviews and a rousing welcome from American thriller fans. Like all great crime fiction, Jar City is about much more than murder, and avid suspense fans are about to discover a first rate writer who has already received rave reviews around the world. As he follows a fascinating trail of unusual forensic evidence, Erlendur also confronts stubborn personal conflicts that reveal his own depth and complexity of character. Did the old man s past come back to haunt him? As the team of detectives reopen this very cold case, Inspector Erlendur uncovers secrets that are much larger than the murder of one old man secrets that have been carefully guarded by many people for many years. Inspector Erlendur, who heads the investigation team, discovers that many years ago the victim was accused, though not convicted, of an unsolved crime. When a lonely old man is found murdered in his Reykjav k flat, the only clues are a cryptic note left by the killer and a photograph of a young girl’s grave. Arnaldur Indridason has been compared to such luminaries in the field as Henning Mankell, Georges Simenon, Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall everyone agrees that here is a world class writer. (Sept.Jar City introduces American readers to a new crime writer from Iceland whose work has created an international sensation. Elinborg and Sigurdur Oli, on the other hand, aren’t particularly persuasive characters, but flashbacks to the University of Leipzig during the Cold War provide compelling insights into the splintered politics of the day, as well as the Icelandic students studying there at the time. Erlendur’s lifelong obsession with the missing provides a haunting metaphor for this lonely, middle-aged man, divorced and alienated from his own two children. As Erlendur and his colleagues, Elinborg and Sigurdur Oli, go about checking on people who went missing around 1970, Erlendur is reminded of the disappearance of his younger brother when they were children. The bones are tied to some kind of Russian listening device, presumably a remnant of the Cold War. , etc.), a human skeleton surfaces in the bed of a lake near Reykjavik that’s been mysteriously draining away.

At the start of Gold Dagger Award–winner Indridason’s carefully plotted fourth entry in his crime series starring detective Erlendur Sveinsson ( Jar City

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