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1) Hypothermia
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
2) Black skies
Author
Series
Inspector Erlendur novel volume 10
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Feeling unfulfilled in his career after attending a school reunion, Sigurdur Oĺi struggles with setbacks in his relationship and position in the Icelandic police department only to have a favor for a friend go wrong, catapulting him into the middle of agrisly murder case.
Author
Series
Inspector Erlendur novel volume 1
Publisher
T. Dunne/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson investigates the killing of a solitary man, found murdered in his Reykjavík apartment, and discovers that the dead man had been accused but not convicted of a rape forty years earlier.
Author
Series
Inspector Erlendur novel volume 12
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When a [homeless man] he met regularly on the night shift is found drowned in a ditch, no one seems to care. But his fate haunts Erlendur and drags him inexorably into the strange and dark underworld of the city
5) Voices
Author
Series
Inspector Erlendur novel volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
At a grand Reykjavik hotel where the doorman has been stabbed in his dingy basement room and the manager is trying to keep the murder under wraps, Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson searches for a killer among the cast of grotesques who populate the hotel.
6) Arctic chill
Author
Series
Inspector Erlendur novel volume 5
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
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 that this was a tragic accident. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation with little to go on but the news that the boy's Thai half-brother is missing. Is he implicated, or simply...
Author
Series
Inspector Erlendur novel volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
When a skeleton is unearthed at a Reykjavik building site, Inspector Erlendur and his colleagues set out to unravel a complex decades-old crime that may have ties to his own troubled family history.
Author
Series
Inspector Erlendur novel volume 4
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Following an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake suddenly falls, revealing a skeleton. Inspector Erlendur's investigation takes him back to the cold war era, when bright, left-wing students in Iceland were sent to study in the "heavenly state" of Communist East Germany. Teeming with spies and informants, though, their "heavenly state" becomes a nightmare of betrayal and murder.
9) Outrage
Author
Series
Inspector Erlendur novel volume 8
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When Detective Erlender places her in charge during his leave of absence, Elinborg tackles a disturbing serial rapist case that has the local police racing against time to prevent another attack.
Author
Series
Inspector Erlendur novel volume 14
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Into Oblivion, the follow-up to the gritty prequel Reykjavik Nights, gives devoted fans another glimpse of Erlendur in his early days as a young, budding detective. A woman swims in a remote, milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises from the water and as it clears, a body is revealed in the ghostly light. Miles away, a vast aircraft hangar rises behind the perimeter fence of the US military base. A sickening thud is heard as a man's body falls from a high...
11) Strange shores
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
Decades after a woman disappears from the Icelandic fjords amid a tempest of lies, betrayal, and revenge, Detective Erlendur searches the same region for his long-lost brother, only to uncover disturbing secrets.
"[B]egins when a young woman disappears from the frozen fjords of Iceland. In her wake, this woman has left a tempest of lies, betrayal and revenge. Decades later, somewhere in the same wilderness, Detective Erlendur is on the hunt. He is...
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