LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018
The first instalment in the thrilling new crime series from worldwide bestseller Arnaldur Indridason
THE PAST
In wartime Reykjav├нk, a young woman is found strangled in a dangerous area known as тАШthe shadow districtтАЩ. An Icelandic detective and a member of the American military police are on the trail of a brutal killer.
THE PRESENT
An elderly man is discovered dead on his bed, smothered with his own pillow. Konr├бd, a retired detective, finds old newspaper cuttings in the manтАЩs home reporting the shadow district murder. ItтАЩs a crime Konr├бd remembers, having grown up in the same neighbourhood.
A MISSING LINK
Why, after all this time, would an old crime resurface? How are these events connected across the decades? And will Konr├бdтАЩs link to the past help him solve the case and finally lay the ghosts of wartime Reykjav├нk to rest?
тАШArnaldur Indridason introduces a new hero... Beautifully toldтАЩ
The Times
тАШAn international literary phenomenonтАЩ
Harlan Coben