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Voices - Arnaldur Indridason

Description: ISBN 0099494175 / Genre: Crime / Thriller / Author: Arnaldur Indridason / Edition: New edition / Mass Market Paperback / 304 Pages / Book ... more

Voices - Arnaldur Indridason ... is published 2007-08-02 by Vintage

Newest Review: ... 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 ... more

... darker side of hotel life from stealing to prostitution. The case hangs around the doorman's past as a choirboy. How can events over twenty years ago have led to a very modern murder? There is a begrudging respect you have to give to Indridason and his no frills approach to crime fiction. Modern crime seems to be all about the gimmick, more about what is different about the investigator than the case itself. Indridason sets out a very straight forward crime narrative and sticks to it. You have one central murde...more

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Voices - Arnaldur Indridason: I Hear Them, and When They Talk I Don't Follow (817 words)
by - written on 18/03/09 (Very useful, 104 readings)
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Murder is not a laughing matter. In fact, in the list of most amusing things 2008 it did not appear anywhere in the top 20. With this in mind crime writers tackle the issue in different ways. The likes of Bill Fitzhugh and Carl Hiaasen argue that murder is actually pretty amusing and should be in comedy novels. Other authors such as Michael Connolly take it altogether more seriously, but write exciting prose and interesting characters to make up for the lack of humour in the book. A third group spurn either option and opt for murder as murder. This group are perhaps the bravest of all as they are putting their straight forward whodunits up to an audience and ... Read the complete review