Arnaldur Indriðason

a Reykjavik thriller

Jar city

A Thriller (Reykjavik Thriller)

Silence of the Grave

The draining lake

Bernard Scudder

Victoria Cribb

A dark-skinned young boy is found dead, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The boy's Thai half-brother is missing; is he implicated, or simply afraid for his own life? While fears increase that the murder could have been racially motivated, the police receive reports that a suspected paedophile has been spotted in the area. Detective Erlendur's investigation soon unearths the tension simmering beneath the surface of Iceland's outwardly liberal, multi-cultural society while the murder forces Erlendur to confront the tragedy in his own past.

Arctic Chill

Voices

Unofficially investigating a suspicious suicide, Inspector Erlendur becomes increasingly unsettled by the unsolved cases of two young people who went missing decades earlier under circumstances tied to his own past.

Hypothermia

Í snyrtilegri íbúð í Þingholtunum í Reykjavík finnst fáklæddur ungur maður liggjandi í blóði sínu. Engin merki eru um innbrot eða áflog en óminnislyf í jakkavasa vekja grunsemdir um illar fyrirætlanir og undir rúmi leynist fjólublátt kvenmannssjal með sterkri og framandlegri lykt. Vísbendingarnar leiða lögregluna fljótlega á slóð dulins ofbeldis og hrottalegra sálarmorða, harma sem aldrei verður hefnt til fulls.

Myrká

صمت القبر

A missing woman. A missing boy. Detective Erlendur returns -- for the last time. A young woman walks into the frozen fjords of Iceland, never to be seen again. But Matthildur leaves in her wake rumours of lies, betrayal and revenge. Decades later, somewhere in the same wilderness, Detective Erlendur is on the hunt. He is looking for Matthildur but also for a long-lost brother, whose disappearance in a snow-storm when they were children has coloured his entire life. He is looking for answers. Slowly, the past begins to surrender its secrets. But as Erlendur uncovers a story about the limits of human endurance, he realises that many people would prefer their crimes to stay buried. * The final novel in Indridason's long-running Reykjavik series: comparable to Henning Mankell's The Troubled Man

Murder in Reykjavik

Strange Shores

Depuis une quinzaine d'années maintenant, et tout particulièrement depuis la récente trilogie suédoise Millénium, nous surfons sur la vague des polars nordiques. Alors, si vous ne connaissez pas encore Indridason, le maître du polar islandais, voici le moment de le découvrir ! Une jeune hydrologue qui étudie la brutale baisse des eaux d'un lac trouve soudain un squelette ensablé. C'est le commissaire Erlendur Sveinsson qui est chargé de découvrir l'identité de ce mystérieux macchabée, qui semble dormir au fond du lac depuis une soixantaine d'années. En parallèle, nous suivons le jeune Tomas, parti étudier à Leipzig dans les années 1950. Tandis que l'enquête peine à avancer, l'auteur procède par flash-back : nous suivons ainsi Tomas et ses amis, enthousiastes face au communisme de l'après-guerre. Petit à petit, Indridason égrène subtilement les éléments qui vont s'imbriquer l'un dans l'autre... Comme dans Millénium, les personnages sont atypiques et rien n'est rose dans la vie du commissaire, c'est ce qui le rend si attachant. Un polar subtil, intelligent et dépaysant !

Homme Du Lac(l')

Svörtuloft

Furðustrandir

Stúlkan hjá brúnni

Dauðarósir

Skuggasund

"A deeply compassionate story of old crimes and their consequences, The Shadow District is the first in a thrilling new series by internationally bestselling author Arnaldur Indridason. THE PAST In wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled in 'the shadow district', a rough and dangerous area of the city. An Icelandic detective and a member of the American military police are on the trail of a brutal killer. THE PRESENT A 90-year-old man is discovered dead on his bed, smothered with his own pillow. Konrad, a former detective now bored with retirement, finds newspaper cuttings reporting the WWII shadow district murder the dead man's home. It's a crime that Konrad remembers, having grown up in the same neighborhood. A MISSING LINK Why, after all this time, would an old crime resurface? Did the police arrest the wrong man? Will Konrad's link to the past help him solve the case and finally lay the ghosts of WWII Reykjavik to rest?"--

a thriller

The shadow district

Dans une vieille maison, dans laquelle toutes les femmes qui y ont vécu se sont senties oppressées sans raison, un mur de la cave s'effondre et on trouve un corps. Konrad, très intrigué par ce cadavre inconnu, enquête et fait resurgir des affaires traitées dans ses trois romans précédents. Par ailleurs, il presse la police d'élucider le meurtre de son père mais il a oublié qu'à l'époque il avait menti et se retrouve inculpé. Toujours dans une ambiance à la Simenon et avec un Konrad très ambigu, moyennement sympathique et noyé dans l'alcool. Le Mur des silences est un beau roman noir sur la violence familiale, la vulnérabilité, les sacrifices et l'impunité, dans lequel les cold cases ressurgissent toujours.

Arnaldur Indriðason

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