Jar City - Arnaldur Indridason

It can stay in Iceland... (1722 words)
by Secre - written on 02/04/12 (Very useful, 45 readings)
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the other hand, neither had my foster mother, which is more surprising as she has been an avid fan of crime fiction for many years. So as a quick background, Arnaldur Indridsaon is an Icelandic writer of crime fiction; he has repeatedly proved to be a very popular writer in Iceland for several years. He worked as a journalist and a critic for a long time before he first started writing crime novels but his first book Sons of Dust was published in 1997 and was the first in the Detective Erlendur series, which have become his main set of novels and also what series this particular novel is in. This series is a constant best seller across Europe and has won numerous awards, ...

Voices - Arnaldur Indridason

I Hear Them, and When They Talk I Don't Follow (822 words)
by samueltyler - written on 18/03/09 (Very useful, 105 readings)
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as they are putting their straight forward whodunits up to an audience and proclaiming that this is enough. You have to be a great author to do this - Arnaldur Indridason is not a great author. Father Christmas is real. Not only is he real, but he has been murdered. Turns out that this is not the Father Christmas but a doorman from a plush Icelandic hotel who is playing the role for a children s party. Detective Erlendur is drafted in to investigate the case and with life hard at home he decides to spend his nights at the hotel so he can get closer to the case. Erlendur s stay will reveal the darker side of hotel life from stealing to prostitution. The case ...

Silence of the Grave - Arnaldur Indridason

Hidden Violence (972 words)
by sunmeilan - written on 04/01/07, updated on 04/01/07 (Very useful, 138 readings)
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become interested in Scandinavian crime fiction and have now read quite a lot of work by Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish authors. I had also heard of an Icelandic author called Arnaldur Indridason (I know Iceland isn t part of Scandinavia, but certainly literature-wise, it is often lumped in with other Scandinavian countries - to us foreigners at least), but until I came across this book in a charity shop recently, I hadn t managed to get hold of any of his work. I settled down in the knowledge that, according to the Daily Mail at least, if I liked Henning Mankell s work, I d like this. I should add now that apart from writing police procedurals and being from countries ...