The Shadow District
Arnaldur Indridason
The Shadow District
Arnaldur Indridason
A thrilling crime novel about old crimes and new consequences, this is the first in a new series by the worldwide bestseller Arnaldur Indridason
LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018
The first instalment in the thrilling new crime series from worldwide bestseller Arnaldur Indridason
THE PAST
In wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled in a dangerous area 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
An elderly man is discovered dead on his bed, smothered with his own pillow. Konrad, a retired detective, finds old newspaper cuttings in the man’s home reporting the shadow district murder. It’s a crime Konrad remembers, having grown up in the same neighbourhood.
A MISSING LINK
Why, after all this time, would an old crime resurface? How are these events connected across the decades? And will Konrad’s link to the past help him solve the case and finally lay the ghosts of wartime Reykjavik to rest?
‘Arnaldur Indridason introduces a new hero. Beautifully told’
The Times
‘An international literary phenomenon’
Harlan Coben
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