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Arctic Chill by Arnaldur Indridason
$29.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
A dark-skinned young boy is found dead, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The boy's Thai half-brother is missing; is he implicated, or simply afraid for his own life? While fears increase that the murder could have been racially motivated, the police receive reports that a suspected paedo ...Show more
Arctic Chill by Arnaldur Indridason
$37.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
On an icy January day the Reykjavik police are called out to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his stomach puts paid to any hope that this was a tragic accident. Erlendu ...Show more
Black Skies by Arnaldur Indridason
$27.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
Detective Sigurdur Oli is in trouble. After a school reunion exposes the chasm between his life and those of his much more successful contemporaries, leaving him bitter and resentful, one of his old friends asks him to pay an unofficial visit to a couple of blackmailers. He readily agrees, only to arriv ...Show more
Black Skies by Arnaldur Indridason
$37.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
A man is making a crude leather mask with an iron spike fixed in the middle of the forehead. It is a 'death mask', once used by Icelandic farmers to slaughter calves, and he has revenge in mind. Meanwhile, a school reunion has left Sigurdur Oli unhappy with life in the police force. While Iceland is enj ...Show more
Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indridason
$30.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Reading Level: very good
One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam at her holiday cottage. At first sight, it appears like a straightforward case of suicide; Maria had never recovered from the death of her mother two years previously and she had a history of depression. But then the friend who found her body a ...Show more
Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indridason
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
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, Maria, had never recovered from the loss of her mother two years earlier and had a history of depression.
Oblivion by Arnaldur Indridason
$38.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
The Quick. A woman swims in a remote, milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises from the water and as it clears, a body is revealed in the ghostly light. The Dead. Miles away, a vast aircraft hangar rises behind the perimeter fence of the US military base. A sickening thud is heard as a man's body falls from a hig ...Show more
Operation Napoleon by Arnaldur Indridason
$40.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
It's 1945: a German bomber flies over Iceland in a blizzard; the crew have lost their way and eventually crash on the Vatnajokull glacier, the largest in Europe. Puzzlingly, there are both German and American officers on board. One of the senior German officers claims that their best chance of survival ...Show more
Outrage by Arnaldur Indridason
$37.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Reading Level: very good
In a flat near Reykjavik city centre, a young man lies dead in a pool of blood although there are no signs of a break-in or any struggle. A purple shawl, found under the bed, gives off a strong and unusual aroma. A vial of narcotics found in the victim's pocket among other clues soon lead Erlendur's col ...Show more
Outrage by Arnaldur Indridason
$27.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
Reykjavik, Saturday night. He offered her another margarita, and, as he returned from the bar, he carefully slid the pill into her glass. They were getting along fine, and he was sure she would give him no trouble...48 hours later, a young man is found dead in a pool of blood. There is no sign of a brea ...Show more
Reykjavik Nights by Arnaldur Indridason
$37.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
The loner Erlendur has recently joined the police force as a young officer. The beat on the streets in Reykjavik is busy: traffic accidents, theft, domestic violence, contraband... And an unexplained death. When a tramp he met regularly on the night shift is found drowned in a ditch no one seems to care ...Show more
Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indridason (Tr fr Icelandic Bernard Scudder)
$36.90 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
Building work in an expanding Reykjavik uncovers a shallow 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 neve ...Show more