Arnaldur Indriðason Knihy

Island 1978. V jezeře uprostřed lávového pole je nalezena mrtvola. Komisař Erlendur a jeho kolega Marian Briem zahajují vyšetřování. Jedna ze stop vede i na blízkou americkou vojenskou základnu. Tam se s islandskou policií nikdo nemíní moc bavit. Že by se mrtvému stalo osudným nějaké vojenské tajemství? Erlendur se zároveň zabývá mysteriózním zmizením mladé dívky před více než dvaceti lety. Pátrá na vlastní pěst. Dívka tehdy odešla do školy kolem obávaného Camp Knoxu...

OLD CRIMES, NEW CONSEQUENCES THE PAST In wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled behind the National Theatre, a rough and dangerous area of the city 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 A 90-year-old man is discovered dead on his bed, smothered with his own pillow. Konrad, a former detective now bored with retirement, finds newspaper cuttings in the dead man's home reporting the shadow district murder that date back to the second world war. It's a crime that Konrad remembers, having grown up in the same neighbourhood. A MISSING LINK Why, after all this time, would an old crime resurface? Did the police arrest the wrong man? How are these cases linked across the decades? Will Konrad's link to the past help him solve the case and finally lay the ghosts of wartime Reykjavik to rest? THE SHADOW DISTRICT IS THE FIRST IN A MAJOR NEW SERIES OF NOVELS FROM THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER ARNALDUR INDRIDASON

Dieser Fund, mitten in Reykjavík, ist ein Schock für die Bewohner: Hinter der Kellerwand ihres Wohnhauses entdecken sie ein menschliches Skelett. Offenbar wurde hier vor Jahrzehnten ein Mordopfer eingemauert und vor der Welt verborgen. Die Kripo Reykjavík nimmt die Ermittlungen auf, eine Vermisstenmeldung, die passen würde, finden sie jedoch nicht. Wer bloß ist das Opfer? Welches Verbrechen wurde hier begangen? Als der pensionierte Kommissar Konráð sich einschaltet, blocken die ehemaligen Kollegen ab. Sie vermuten, dass Konráð ihnen wichtige Infos bei früheren Ermittlungen verschwiegen hat. Konráð forscht daraufhin auf eigene Faust weiter. Hat das lange zurückliegende Verbrechen tatsächlich etwas mit seiner eigenen Familiengeschichte zu tun - mit dem Mord an seinem Vater? WAND DES SCHWEIGENS ist der in sich abgeschlossene vierte Band in der Kommissar-Konráð-Reihe

Stará žena jménem Halla nalezne po manželově smrti v garáži uprostřed Reykjavíku pistoli, kterou odnese na policii. Když se o tom doslechne penzionovaný komisař Konráð vzpomene si, že přesně takovou zbraň vlastnil i jeho otec. Jeho kolega z kriminální policie navíc pomocí balistické expertizy zjistí, že právě z této zbraně vyšel smrtící výstřel v nikdy neobjasněném případu. Tehdy byl bez zjevného důvodu zastřelen muž jménem Garðar. Konráð se proto ve snaze zjistit, co měl s tímto zločinem společného jeho otec, pouští do soukromého vyšetřování. Jedna ze stop vede ke Gústafovi, lékaři, který si odpykává trest za zneužívání dětí. Kromě toho se před mnoha lety cesty Gústafa a Konráða protnuly…

A corpse is found on a hill outside the city, and Detective Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson and his team think the body may have been buried for some years. While Erlendur struggles to hold together the crumbling fragments of his own family, slowly but surely he finds out the truth about another unhappy family. Few people are still alive who can tell the tale, but even secrets taken to the grave cannot remain hidden forever.

One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam in her summer cottage by Lake Thingvellir. At first sight it appears to be a straightforward case of suicide; the woman, Mar�a, had never recovered from the loss of her mother two years earlier and had a history of depression. But when Karen, the friend who found her body, approaches Erlendur and gives him the tape of a s�ance that Mar�a had attended, his curiosity is aroused. Driven by a need to find answers that even he does not fully understand, Erlendur embarks on an unofficial investigation to find out why the woman's life ended in such an abrupt and tragic manner. At the same time he is haunted by the unresolved cases of two young people who went missing thirty years before, and, inevitably, his discoveries raise ghosts from his own past.

A missing woman. A missing boy. Detective Erlendur returns - for the last time A young woman walks into the frozen fjords of Iceland, never to be seen again. But Matthildur leaves in her wake rumours of lies, betrayal and revenge. Decades later, somewhere in the same wilderness, Detective Erlendur is on the hunt. He is looking for Matthildur but also for a long-lost brother, whose disappearance in a snow-storm when they were children has coloured his entire life. He is looking for answers. Slowly, the past begins to surrender its secrets. But as Erlendur uncovers a story about the limits of human endurance, he realises that many people would prefer their crimes to stay buried.

A brilliant new mystery from the winner of the CWA Gold Dagger and Indridason's best book yet. In the wake of an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake drops suddenly, revealing the skeleton of a man half-buried in its sandy bed. It is clear immediately that it has been there for many years. There is a large hole in the skull. Yet more mysteriously, a heavy communication device is attached to it, possibly some sort of radio transmitter, bearing inscriptions in Russian. The police are called in and Erlendur, Elinborg and Sigurdur Olii begin their investigation, which gradually leads them back to the time of the Cold War when bright, left-wing students would be sent from Iceland to study in the 'heavenly state' of Communist East Germany. The Draining Lake is another remarkable Indridason mystery about passions and shattered dreams, the fate of the missing and the grief of those left behind.

In Petsamo, in het hoge noorden van Finland, wacht een jonge vrouw op haar geliefde. Ze willen per schip naar IJsland terug, weg van de oorlog die zich nu tot de noordelijke landen heeft uitgebreid. Haar vriend komt echter niet opdagen. In de lente van 1943 heeft de Wereldoorlog een hoogtepunt bereikt. In Reykjavík is de bevolking in rep en roer. Aan het strand van Nauthólsvík is een lichaam aangespoeld. Achter een legerkroeg aan de Klambratún wordt een jongen het slachtoffer van geweld. Een vrouw die veel contacten onder militairen heeft lijkt verdwenen te zijn.

Als Konráð vom gewaltsamen Tod der Frau in ihrer Reykjavíker Wohnung erfährt, macht er sich große Vorwürfe. Die Frau hatte ihn, den pensionierten Kommissar, vor wenigen Wochen kontaktiert und angefleht, nach ihrem inzwischen erwachsenen Kind zu suchen. Sie hatte es damals direkt nach der Geburt zur Adoption freigegeben. Konráð bereut es nun zutiefst, die Frau abgewiesen zu haben. Um ihrer verzweifelten Bitte wenigstens postum nachzukommen, beschließt er, sich auf die Suche nach dem Kind zu machen. Er ahnt nicht, welch einem tragischen Schicksal er damit auf die Spur kommt ...