Indridason, an internationally best-selling author of "Nordic Noir" crime thrillers, starts a new series, projected to be a trilogy, set during the American occupation of Iceland in World War II.
His two detectives are Stephan Thorson (or Thódarson ) a Canadian Army investigator working as a liaison officer with a Reykjavik police detective called Flóvent. It's the bitterly cold winter of 1944 when they are assigned to investigate the death of a young woman found strangled in an alley behind the National Theatre, in an area known as the Shadow District. The case was never satisfactorily resolved.
Over sixty years later, an elderly pensioner living alone in a tiny flat in Reykjavik, is found dead on his bed, after a worried neighbor calls the police and asks them to check on him. At first the assumption is that he died in his sleep of natural causes. But an autopsy proves otherwise. A retired police detective named Kónrad who volunteers to work on cold cases for something to do, offers to follow up when the initial investigation turns up nothing. Soon Kónrad discovers some intriguing connections between the death of the old man and the unsolved crime from the war years, and realizes that to solve the present day crime he must finally discover the truth of the old crime.
Indridason is a master of his craft. The second volume in the trilogy, The Shadow Killer, is due out next summer. Highly recommended.
Click HERE to read an interview with the author, Arnaldur Indridason, talking about his new series, from Crime Fiction Lover.com
Click HERE to read the review from Publishers' Weekly.
Click HERE to read the review from Kirkus Reviews.
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