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Reykjavik, Saturday night He offered her another margarita, and, as he returned from the bar, he carefully slid the pill into her glass. They were getting along fine, and he was sure she would give him no trouble... 48 hours later A young man is found dead in a pool of blood. There is no sign of a break-in at his flat. The victim is found wearing a woman's t-shirt, while a bottle of Rohypnol lies on the table nearby. Detective Elinborg, already struggling to juggle family life and the relentless demands of her job, is assigned the case. But with no immediate leads to the killer, can she piece together details of the victim's secret life and…

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…

A skeleton is found half-buried in a dried out lake. The bones have been weighed down with an old radio transmitter: is this a clue to the victim, and the killer's identity? Detective Erlendur is called in to investigate and discovers that there may be a connection with a group of students who were sent to study in East Germany during the Cold War, and with a young man who walked out of his family home one day, never to return. As the mystery deepens, Erlendur and his team must unravel a story of international espionage, murder and betrayal.

Building 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 missing person scenario; perhaps someone once lost in the snow, who has lain peacefully buried for decades. Things are never that simple. Whilst Erlendur struggles to hold together the crumbling fragments of his own family, his case unearths many other tales of family pain. The hills have more than one tragic story to tell: tales of failed relationships and heartbreak; of anger, domestic violence and fear; of family loyalty and family shame. Few people are still…

An old man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat. A cryptic note and a photograph of a young girl's grave are left behind. Did the dead man's past come back to haunt him? Inspector Erlendur discovers that several decades ago the victim was accused, but not convicted, of an unsolved crime. As he follows a fascinating trail of strange forensic evidence, Inspector Erlendur uncovers secrets that are much larger than the murder of one man - dark secrets that have been carefully guarded for many, many years... 'A fascinating window on an unfamiliar world as well as an original and puzzling mystery' Val McDermid

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…

The first instalment in the thrilling new crime series from worldwide bestseller Arnaldur Indridason The Past In wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled in a dangerous area known as 'the shadow district'. 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. Konrad, a retired detective, finds old newspaper cuttings in the man's home reporting the shadow district murder. It's a crime Konrad remembers, having grown up in the same neighbourhood. A Missing Link Why, after all this time, would an…

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.

Detective Sigurdur Oli is in trouble. After a school reunion exposes the chasm between his life and those of his much more successful contemporaries, leaving him bitter and resentful, one of his old friends asks him to pay an unofficial visit to a couple of blackmailers. He readily agrees, only to arrive to find one of the pair lying in a pool of blood. When the victim dies in hospital, Sigurdur Oli is faced with investigating a murder without revealing his own reasons for being present at the murder scene. Moving from the villas of Reykjavik's banking elite to a sordid basement flat, Black Skies is a superb story of greed, pride and murder…

It is a few days before Christmas and a Reykjavik doorman and occasional Santa Claus, Gudlauger, has been found stabbed to death in his hotel room in a sexually compromising position. It soon becomes apparent that both staff and guests have something to hide, but it is the dead man who has the most shocking secret. Detective Erlendur soon discovers that the placidly affluent appearance of the hotel covers a multitude of sins.

One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam at her holiday cottage. At first sight, it appears like a straightforward case of suicide; Maria had never recovered from the death of her mother two years previously and she had a history of depression. But then the friend who found her body approaches Detective Erlendur with a tape of a seance that Maria attended before her death and his curiosity is aroused. Driven by a need to find answers, Erlendur begins an unofficial investigation into Maria's death. But he is also haunted by another unsolved mystery - the disappearance of two young people thirty years ago - and by his own…

Rahvusvaheline menuk P?hjamaade krimiromaani austajaile Kui Reykjav?ki l?hedalt ehitusplatsilt leitakse pooleldi maetud luustik, on uurija Erlendur korraga keset kuriteopaika ja arheoloogilisi v?ljakaevamisi. Luu luu haaval kaevatakse skelett v?lja ja koos sellega hakkab selguma ehitusplatsi l?hedal elanud perekonna kohutav lugu. Kas luustik kuulub mehele v?i naisele, on ta ohver v?i m?rvar ning kas tegemist on lihtsa m?rvajuhtumiga v?i kaua varjatud ?iglase teoga? Politsei ees on keeruline ?lesanne, aga aegam??da saab pilt selgemaks: minevik kaevatakse v?lja mullast, vanadest ajalehtedest, m?lus?gavustest – ja killud paljastavad…

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…

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.

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.

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.