Arnaldur Indridason
Arnaldur Indridason worked for many years as a journalist and critic before he began writing novels. He has published several thrillers, but it is for his Reykjavík Murder Mysteries — the series featuring Erlendur and Sigurdur Óli — that he is best known outside his native Iceland. He has won the Glass Key for best Nordic crime novel (both for Tainted Blood and for Silence of the Grave) and the Martin Beck Award for best crime novel translated into Swedish (for The Voice). In 2005, Silence of the Grave was awarded the coveted CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel, an...
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Voices
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-09-954662-7 (0-09-954662-0)
January 26, 2010 | $19.95
The third novel in the award-winning Reykjavik Murder Mysteries.
The Christmas rush is under way in a big Reykjavik hotel when the police are called to the scene of a murder. The hotel doorman (and long-time resident of its basement) has been stabbed to death. With the hotel fully booked, the manager...
Written by Arnaldur Indridason
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-09-954662-7 (0-09-954662-0)
January 26, 2010 | $19.95
The third novel in the award-winning Reykjavik Murder Mysteries.
The Christmas rush is under way in a big Reykjavik hotel when the police are called to the scene of a murder. The hotel doorman (and long-time resident of its basement) has been stabbed to death. With the hotel fully booked, the manager...
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Hypothermia
Hardcover | 320 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-35781-6 (0-307-35781-3)
October 27, 2009 | $32.00
The latest installment in the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Award–winning Reykjavik Murder Mystery series.
One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam in her summer cottage. At first sight it appears to be a straightforward case of suicide; the woman, María, had never recovered from the loss...
Written by Arnaldur Indridason
Hardcover | 320 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-35781-6 (0-307-35781-3)
October 27, 2009 | $32.00
The latest installment in the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Award–winning Reykjavik Murder Mystery series.
One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam in her summer cottage. At first sight it appears to be a straightforward case of suicide; the woman, María, had never recovered from the loss...
Arctic Chill
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-35683-3 (0-307-35683-3)
September 29, 2009 | $21.00
On an icy January day, the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his stomach extinguishes any hope...
Written by Arnaldur Indridason
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-35683-3 (0-307-35683-3)
September 29, 2009 | $21.00
On an icy January day, the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his stomach extinguishes any hope...
Arctic Chill
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-37283-3 (0-307-37283-9)
September 29, 2009 | $21.00
On an icy January day, the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his stomach extinguishes any hope...
Written by Arnaldur Indridason
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-37283-3 (0-307-37283-9)
September 29, 2009 | $21.00
On an icy January day, the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his stomach extinguishes any hope...
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Jar City
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-09-954183-7 (0-09-954183-1)
August 31, 2009 | $21.95
A man is found murdered in his Reykjavík flat, and the police have no obvious leads. The man lived alone and had no family, and of his only two friends, one is serving time for an array of petty crimes and psychotic violence, and the other hasn't been heard of for...
Written by Arnaldur Indridason
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-09-954183-7 (0-09-954183-1)
August 31, 2009 | $21.95
A man is found murdered in his Reykjavík flat, and the police have no obvious leads. The man lived alone and had no family, and of his only two friends, one is serving time for an array of petty crimes and psychotic violence, and the other hasn't been heard of for...
Arctic Chill
Hardcover | 352 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-35682-6 (0-307-35682-5)
February 3, 2009 | $32.00
On an icy January day, the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his stomach extinguishes any hope...
Written by Arnaldur Indridason
Hardcover | 352 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-35682-6 (0-307-35682-5)
February 3, 2009 | $32.00
On an icy January day, the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his stomach extinguishes any hope...
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The Draining Lake
Paperback | 304 pages | Vintage Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-09-949414-0 (0-09-949414-0)
September 2, 2008 | $12.99
In the wake of an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake drops suddenly, revealing the skeleton of a man half-buried in its sandy bed. It is clear immediately that it has been there for many years. There is a large hole in the skull. Yet more mysteriously, a heavy...
Written by Arnaldur Indridason
Paperback | 304 pages | Vintage Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-09-949414-0 (0-09-949414-0)
September 2, 2008 | $12.99
In the wake of an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake drops suddenly, revealing the skeleton of a man half-buried in its sandy bed. It is clear immediately that it has been there for many years. There is a large hole in the skull. Yet more mysteriously, a heavy...
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The Draining Lake
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Harvill Secker | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-1-84655-095-9 (1-84655-095-5)
September 25, 2007 | $25.00
In the wake of an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake drops suddenly, revealing the skeleton of a man half-buried in its sandy bed. It is clear immediately that it has been there for many years. There is a large hole in the skull. Yet more mysteriously, a heavy...
Written by Arnaldur Indridason
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Harvill Secker | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-1-84655-095-9 (1-84655-095-5)
September 25, 2007 | $25.00
In the wake of an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake drops suddenly, revealing the skeleton of a man half-buried in its sandy bed. It is clear immediately that it has been there for many years. There is a large hole in the skull. Yet more mysteriously, a heavy...
Also available as a
paperback.
Voices
Paperback | 304 pages | Vintage Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-09-949417-1 (0-09-949417-5)
September 25, 2007 | $11.99
Following the huge success of Silence of the Grave, Indridason has followed through with another spellbinding thriller — the third in the award-winning Reykjavik Murder Mysteries.
At a grand Reykjavik hotel the doorman has been repeatedly stabbed in the dingy basement room he called home. It is only a few days before...
Written by Arnaldur Indridason
Paperback | 304 pages | Vintage Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-09-949417-1 (0-09-949417-5)
September 25, 2007 | $11.99
Following the huge success of Silence of the Grave, Indridason has followed through with another spellbinding thriller — the third in the award-winning Reykjavik Murder Mysteries.
At a grand Reykjavik hotel the doorman has been repeatedly stabbed in the dingy basement room he called home. It is only a few days before...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Silence of the Grave
Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-09-946954-4 (0-09-946954-5)
June 6, 2006 | $11.99
Downtrodden Detective Erlendur and his team must once again investigate Reykjavik’s hidden past to unravel a case of human nastiness.
Construction 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...
Written by Arnaldur Indridason
Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-09-946954-4 (0-09-946954-5)
June 6, 2006 | $11.99
Downtrodden Detective Erlendur and his team must once again investigate Reykjavik’s hidden past to unravel a case of human nastiness.
Construction 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...
