La Cite Des Jarres : Une Enquete Du Commissaire Erlendur Sveinsson

from jimrbrown

The first book I have read by this Icelandic author and I thoroughly enjoyed it. A murder of an old man unlocks an old Icelandic secret that has remained unknown for 40 years. The dark story is intertwined with the hero's complicated personal life and I was left turning every page to see how both...

from vikk

Translated from Icelandic. Arnaldur Indridason is picking up quite a following and his work is being critically acclaimed among the new wave of mystery/thriller writers from Iceland, Sweden, and Finland. JAR CITY , originally titled TAINTED BLOOD, is his third novel and the first one I found. In ...

from RidgewayGirl

This is Arnaldur Indridason's first installment in his excellent crime series. Erlendur is an aging detective in the Reykjavik CID. He's a solitary man with a bad divorce behind him and a drug-addicted daughter with whom he has a difficult relationship, although they are both trying very hard. In...

from richardderus

It's hard for me to believe this is a debut novel. The author is, of course, a journalist and so the possessor of writerly skills; still, a novel is something wholly and entirely other than he could be expected to do in his sleep. I think the first-novel-ishness comes out in a few small ways. He ...

from cameling

One of the few crime thrillers where the uncovering of leads and evidence is slow and at times frustrating,where the clues don't just fall conveniently into the lap of a suave police inspector. Set in Iceland, an old man is found dead in his home by his neighbors, with his head bashed in, apparen...