Arnaldur Indridason

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....

"Fans of Nordic noir will enjoy this performance. For those new to the genre and looking for an easy start, Barrett offers an expert entry into a world of danger and intrigue." –AudioFile Magazine
Retired detective Konrad returns to a haunting cold case in The Darkness Knows by Arnaldur Indridason, the "undisputed King of the Icelandic thriller." —The Guardian (UK)
A frozen body is discovered

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The loner Erlendur has recently joined the police force as a young officer. The beat on the streets in ReykjavIk is busy: traffic accidents, theft, domestic violence, contraband... And an unexplained death. When a tramp he met regularly on the night shift is found drowned in a ditch no one seems to care. But his fate haunts Erlendur and drags him inexorably into the strange and dark underworld of the city. - Features the young Erlendur: ReykjavIk...

Inspector Erlendur returns in this international Bestseller Following an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake suddenly falls, revealing a skeleton. Inspector Erlendur's investigation takes him back to the Cold War era, when bright, left-wing students in Iceland were sent to study in the "heavenly state" of Communist East Germany. Teeming with spies and informants, though, their "heavenly state" becomes a nightmare of betrayal and murder....

In Outrage, Inspector Erlendur's colleague Elinborg takes center stage as a young man's death leads inexorably toward an even darker truth.

In Hypothermia, Inspector Erlendur contends with personal demons while investigating a woman's suicide. Although there are no signs of foul play, Erlendur gradually exposes a sinister plot.

The only author to win the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel two years in a row, Arnaldur Indridason has sold more than five million copies of his novels in more than 25 countries. A detective whose inner turmoil threatens to consume him, Erlendur Sveinsson is charged with investigating the death of an Asian boy-and confronting forces colder than Iceland's frigid clime. "A remarkable series."-New York Times Book Review

Somewhere in the wilderness of Iceland's frozen East Fjords, Erlendur is on the hunt. For a long lost brother, for a woman who vanished decades ago, for answers. He has come to confront the family tragedy that has haunted him all his life. But it is another missing-person story - the disappearance of Matthildur, lost in a snow-storm decades before but not yet forgotten - which reels him in. Slowly, the past begins to give up its secrets - of infidelities,...

Ein Mann wird in seiner Wohnung in Reykjavik ermordet aufgefunden. Auf seinem Schreibtisch liegen Zeitungsausschnitte aus den Kriegsjahren, die von einem brutalen Mord berichten: Ein Mädchen wurde damals mitten in der Stadt erdrosselt, dort, wo in jener Zeit das Lager des amerikanischen Militärs war. Konráð, ein pensionierter Polizist, erfährt davon, und seine Neugier erwacht. Er hatte schon früher von dem ermordeten Mädchen gehört - aber...

Ohne Abschied zu nehmen, ist Kommissar Erlendur in die Ostfjorde gereist, dorthin, wo er seine Kindheit verbracht und seinen kleinen Bruder im Schneesturm verloren hat. Jahrzehnte zuvor hatten sich in dieser Gegend dramatische Szenen abgespielt: Ein Trupp englischer Soldaten geriet auf einem Höhenpfad in ein tödliches Unwetter. In derselben Nacht verschwand eine junge Frau, deren Leiche aber nie gefunden wurde. Das Schicksal dieser Frau zieht Erlendur...