The police find newspaper articles about a murder case from the Second World War in which a young woman was found strangled behind the National Theatre of Reykjavik on his desk.įormer detective Konrád remembers the crime because he is bored with retirement. In The Shadow District by Arnaldur Indridason (book 1 in the Flovent and Thorson series), a 90-year-old man is discovered suffocated to death in his bed with his own pillow. The novel is recommended to readers of Clive Cussler and Alistair MacLean. But before he disappears, he contacts his sister, Kristin, who now goes on an adventure in order to find out what happened to her brother. A young man named Elias stumbles upon the operation and then disappears.
Army is attempting to remove the wreck of an airplane from a glacier in a clandestine operation. A German senior officer says that it would be best to walk to a nearby farm, and then disappears into the blizzard. The novel starts out during World War II, when a German bomber crashes in Iceland during a blizzard. If You Like Arnaldur Indridason Books, You’ll Love…Īrnaldur Indridason Synopses: Operation Napoleon is a standalone thriller novel by Arnaldur Indridason and translated by Victoria Cribb. Note: Jar City was also published under the title Tainted Blood. Below is a list of Arnaldur Indridason’s books in order of when they were originally published: He is the winner of the Glass Key Award in 20 and has also won the 2005 CWA Gold Dagger Award for Silence of the Grave. His first book to be published in English was Jar City (aka Tainted Blood). His novels have been published in 26 countries and into many different languages, including English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Russian, Dutch, Polish, Greek, Danish, Catalan, Czech, Hungarian, Chinese, Croatian, Romanian and Bulgarian.Īrnaldur Indridason became a published author with the novel Sons of Dust, which was published in 1997 in Icelandic and has yet to see an English translation.
At one point, his novels were seven of the top ten books at the Reykjavik City Library. Arnaldur received his degree in history from the University of Iceland, then worked as a journalist, freelance writer and film critic. He is best known for his Inspector Erlendur series. Arnaldur Indridason is an Icelandic novelist of crime fiction.
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