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 Silence of the Grave - Arnaldur Indridason
 Silence of the Grave - Arnaldur Indridason ... grave. Years before, this part of the city was all open hills, and Erlendur and his team hope this is a typical Icelandic missing person scenario; perhaps someone once lost in the snow, who has lain peacefully buried for decades. Things are never that simple. Whilst Erlendur struggles to hold together the crumbling fragments of his own family, his case unearths many other tales of family pain. The hills have more than one tragic story to tell: tales of failed relationships and heartbreak; of anger, domestic violence and fear; of family loyalty and family shame. Few people are still alive who can tell the story, but even secrets taken to the grave cannot remain hidden forever.Newest Review: ... Oli, begin the investigation. The area where the skeleton is found hasn't been lived on for many years, so the first thing to ... more ... research is who last lived there. This is not so easy to discover, because the last house on the site was lived in during the Second World War; records are few and far between and most of the people that know anything about it are now dead. Slowly, however, the police team begin to make progress.
At the same time, Erlendur receives a phone call from his estranged daughter, who cries for help, although doesn't say what the problem is, or where she can be found. When Erlendur finally finds his heavily pregnant ...more |
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Silence of the Grave - Arnaldur Indridason: Hidden Violence (966 words)
by - written on 04/01/07 (Very useful, 136 readings)
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Since Henning Mankell's work came to my attention, I've 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 ... Read the complete review
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