Arctic Chill

A Thriller (Reykjavik Thriller)

By Indridason, Mr Arnaldur & Scudder, Bernard & Cribb, Victoria

Publishers Summary:
In this new extraordinary thriller from Gold Dagger Award winner Arnaldur Indridason, the Reykjavik police are called on an icy January day to a garden where a body has been found: a young, dark-skinned boy is frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation and soon unearth tensions simmering beneath the surface of Ice land’s outwardly liberal, multicultural society. Meanwhile, the boy’s murder forces Erlendur to confront the tragedy in his own past. Soon, facts are emerging from the snow-filled darkness that are more chilling even than the Arctic night.

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ISBN
978-0-31238-103-5
Publisher
Minotaur Books


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Reviewed on August 15, 2009

The latest entry in Indridason's Erlendur series (after The Draining Lake) finds the detective and his team investigating the death of a young boy of Thai/Icelandic descent. His seemingly motiveless murder brings to the forefront an examination of racial tensions in Iceland's outwardly liberal society, particularly within the school system. At the same time, Erlendur continues to investigate the haunting case ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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