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Into Oblivion, the follow-up to the gritty prequel Reykjavik Nights, gives devoted fans another glimpse of Erlendur in his early days as a young, budding detective.It's 1979. A 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. Miles away, a vast aircraft hangar rises behind the perimeter fence of the US military base. A sickening thud is heard as a man's body falls...

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Schemerspel Zomer 1972. Reykjavík is in rep en roer. In de Laugardalshal zal het wereldkampioenschap schaken beginnen en in de stad wemelt het van de buitenlanders. De Koude Oorlog is op zijn hoogtepunt en vertegenwoordigers van oost en west begeleiden hun mannen, Spassky en Fischer, naar het schaakbord. Terwijl de voorbereidingen in volle gang zijn, wordt een jongen in de bioscoop het slachtoffer van een brute aanval. De politie heeft het bui...

Icelandic detective Erlendur is back, in a new novel dominated by drug-dealers, a cold case involving a missing schoolgirl, a CIA operative and the murky history of America's presence in Iceland. Now in paperback.

Nell'Islanda inebriata dai soldi facili della speculazione finanziaria chiunque si sente autorizzato ad arricchirsi, o perlomeno a indebitarsi per concedersi un tenore di vita che altrimenti non sarebbe in grado di permettersi. Ma presto la realtà bussa alla porta e Lina, segretaria di commercialisti, scambista nonché ricattatrice dilettante per ripagare le rate di casa e automobile, avrebbe fatto meglio a non aprire... Intanto Andrés, alcolis...

Un senzatetto viene trovato annegato alla periferia di Reykjavík. Un caso di poca importanza, che la polizia archivia come morte accidentale. Nelle stesse ore, una donna sparisce nel nulla dopo aver trascorso la serata in un locale del centro. Un anno dopo, Erlendur, poliziotto alle prime armi assegnato al turno di notte della stradale, passa lunghe ore a pattugliare le vie di una città deserta, ore spezzate di tanto in tanto ...

Arnaldur Indridason worked for many years as a journalist and critic before he began writing novels. His books have since sold over 12 million copies worldwide. Outside Iceland, he is best known for his crime novels featuring Erlendur and Sigurdur ¿i, which are consistent bestsellers across Europe. The series has won numerous awards, including the Nordic Glass Key and the CWA Gold Dagger.

Arnaldur Indridason worked for many years as a journalist and critic before he began writing novels. His books have since sold over 12 million copies worldwide. Outside Iceland, he is best known for his crime novels featuring Erlendur and Sigurdur ¿i, which are consistent bestsellers across Europe. The series has won numerous awards, including the Nordic Glass Key and the CWA Gold Dagger.

Una de las novelas negras más premiadas y elogiadas de los últimos cinco años en Europa y Estados Unidos. Su autor, el islandés Arnaldur Indridason, se consagró con ella como uno de los grandes nombres de la literatura policíaca, un referente imprescindible de la vitalidad de la prestigiosa narrativa negra escandinava y, por supuesto, europea. Todo un acontecimiento que devuelve al lector a la esencia misma, clásica donde las hayas, del ...

Arnaldur Indridason worked for many years as a journalist and critic before he began writing novels. His books have since sold over 12 million copies worldwide. Outside Iceland, he is best known for his crime novels featuring Erlendur and Sigurdur ¿i, which are consistent bestsellers across Europe. The series has won numerous awards, including the Nordic Glass Key and the CWA Gold Dagger.

New, B format edition of the Icelandic thriller, translated by Victoria Cribb. It won Iceland's top crime prize, and Indridason has also won the CWA Gold Dagger for Fiction for his previous novel "Silence Of The Grave". Ties in with publication of new trade paperback "Operation Napoleon".

On an icy January day, the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body of the young boy has been found in the garden, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. Erlendur and his team embark on an investigation but have little to go on.

In einer Wohnung mitten in Reykjavík wird ein Mann tot aufgefunden - mit durchtrennter Kehle. Der Täter scheint das Opfer gekannt zu haben, denn nichts weist auf einen Einbruch hin. Kommissarin Elinborg findet am Tatort einen Kaschmirschal, der einen merkwürdigen Geruch verströmt, und in der Jackentasche des Opfers eine Vergewaltigungsdroge. Erlendurs Kollegin ahnt, dass der Mord die Rache für ein brutales Verbrechen war. Und ihm Freveltaten v...

Was zunächst aussieht wie ein typisch isländischer Mord - schäbig, sinnlos und schlampig ausgeführt -, erweist sich als überaus schwieriger Fall für Erlendur von der Kripo Reykjavik. Wer ist der tote alte Mann in der Souterrainwohnung in Nordermoor? Warum hinterlässt der Mörder eine Nachricht bei seinem Opfer, die niemand versteht? - Während schwere Islandtiefs sich über der Insel im Nordatlantik austoben, wird eine weitere Leiche gefunden ......