Арнальдур Индридасон – лучшие произведения

Арнальд Индридасон - один из самых известных и любимых в Европе исландцев. Поклонники жанра увлеченно наблюдают за необычными расследованиями Эрленда, полицейского детектива из Рейкьявика. "Каменный мешок" - продолжение нашумевшей "Трясины" - в 2005 году удостоенной "британской литературной премии Золотой кинжал" как лучший криминальный роман. В пригороде Рейкьявика на строительном участке обнаружен полувековой давности скелет. Мысли Эрленда заняты тяжелым состоянием дочери, лежащей в больнице. Однако он считает, что убийство есть убийство, когда бы оно ни случилось, и методично собирает крошечные обрывки информации в осмысленную картину,…

Полиция Рейкьявика находит труп одинокого пожилого мужчины, убитого в собственном доме. В деле нет ни одной зацепки - ни мотивов, ни улик, кроме чрезвычайно странной коротенькой записки. Однако следователь Эрленд чувствует, что за преступлением скрывается давняя и глубоко личная драма. По крупицам он начинает воссоздавать картину мрачной медицинской тайны, уходящей корнями в прошлое и разрушившей не одну жизнь...

"Голос" - третий роман серии. В дорогом отеле горничная обнаруживает убитого швейцара в крайне унизительном, даже для трупа, положении. Выясняется, что в детстве покойный был исключительно талантливым хористом, но его певческая карьера рано и бесповоротно оборвалась. А Эрленд по собственному горькому опыту знает, что корни нелепо сложившейся судьбы обычно уходят в прошлое. Поиски нужных ответов направляют его по извилистому пути, который парадоксальным образом оказывается важен не только для дела, но и для него самого.

На дне обмелевшего озера Клейварватн обнаружен скелет с пробитым черепом. Рядом — привязанный веревкой радиопередатчик русского производства. Инспектор Эрленд из полиции Рейкьявика берется за расследование обстоятельств гибели. Следы уводят в глубь десятилетий, в эпоху “холодной войны”, тотального шпионажа, социалистических идей и подпольной политической деятельности студентов-исландцев в ГДР. Дело грозит обернуться международным скандалом. “Пересыхающее озеро” — не просто захватывающий шпионский детектив, созданный признанным мастером, исландским писателем Арнальдом Индридасоном. Этот роман выходит далеко за рамки жанра и рассказывает о…

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 tensions 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.

Lík ungrar stúlku finnst á leiði Jóns Sigurðssonar skömmu eftir hátíðahöldin 17. júní. Enginn veit hver hún er, hvaðan hún kom eða hvers vegna hún var myrt. Og því síður af hverju hún var lögð á leiði sjálfstæðishetju Íslendinga.

Inspector Erlunder has spent his entire career struggling to evade the ghosts of his past. But ghosts are visiting him, both in the form of a séance attended by a dead woman and also in the reemerging puzzle of two young people who went missing 30 years ago. And there’s the ghost of the detective’s disastrous marriage, which, despite the pleas of his drug-addled daughter, he is unwilling to confront. In addition, he’s still obsessed with the disappearance of his brother, who vanished without a trace when they were boys. He can only run from his ghosts for so long, and, when they finally catch up with him, Erlunder is forced to face the…

Published now in twenty-six countries around the world, Inspector Erlendur joins Maigret, Morse, Wallander, and a handful of other world-famous policemen who provide must-reading for suspense fans everywhere. In this latest puzzle, Inspector Erlendur learns of the baffling story of Matthildur, a local woman who went missing years earlier on the night of a violent storm. A frequent visitor to his birthplace, Erlendur has spent his whole life searching for his brother, Beggi, who was lost in a snowstorm when they were both children. As he begins to ask questions about the fateful evening when Matthildur disappeared, Erlendur begins to…

The crime: Reykjavik, August 1941. When a travelling salesman is found murdered in a basement flat, the police initially suspect a member of the Allied occupation force. The suspect: Flovent, Reykjavik’s sole detective, is joined by the young military policeman Thorson. Their investigation focuses on a family of German residents, the retired doctor Rudolf Lunden and his estranged son Felix, who is on the run, suspected of being a spy. The ex-lover: Flovent and Thorson race to solve the case before US Counterintelligence can take it out of their hands. As evidence emerges of dubious experiments carried out on Icelandic schoolboys in the…

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. Erlendur tekur sér frí í þessari bók en aðrir í lögguteymi hans rannsaka málið.

The Living Erlendur has recently joined the police force as a young officer and immediately sinks into the darkness of Reykjavik's underworld. Working nights, he discovers the city is full of car crashes, robberies, drinkers and fighters. And sometimes an unexplained death. The Lost A homeless man Erlendur knows is found drowned. But few people care. Or when a young woman on her way home from a club vanishes. Both cases go cold. The Searcher Two lost people from two different worlds. Erlendur is not an investigator, but his instincts tell him their fates are worth pursuing. How could they be linked? In the Heart of the Night Inexorably, he…

Kona sem sökuð er um fjárkúgun er barin til ólífis nánast fyrir augum lögreglunnar. Árásarmaðurinn kemst undan á hlaupum og allt bendir til þess að þar sé handrukkari á ferð. Rannsókn málsins fellur í óvæntan farveg en meðan á henni stendur reynir kunnur ógæfumaður ítrekað að ná sambandi við lögregluna með afar óljóst erindi.

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.

Synir duftsins er fyrsta bók Arnaldar sem kynnir til sögu lögreglumanninn Erlend Sveinsson. Fertugur sjúklingur styttir sér aldur á spítala í Reykjavík. Samtímis brennur eldri maður til bana á öðrum stað í bænum – fyrrverandi kennari hins. Hvaða löngu liðnu atburðir réðu örlögum þeirra?