Arctic Chill - Softcover

Indridason, A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846550653 ISBN 13: 9781846550652

Publisher: Harvill Secker, 2008

Synopsis

On an icy January day the Reykjavik police are called 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 extinguishes any hope that this was a tragic accident. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation with little to go on but the news that the boy's Thai half-brother is missing. Is he implicated, or simply afraid for his own life? The investigation soon unearths tensions simmering beneath the surface of Iceland's outwardly liberal, multicultural society. A teacher at the boy's school makes no secret of his anti-immigration stance; incidents are reported between Icelandic pupils and the disaffected children of incomers; and, to confuse matters further, a suspected paedophile has been spotted in the area. Meanwhile, the boy's murder forces Erlendur to confront the tragedy in his own past. Soon, facts are emerging from the snow-filled darkness that are more chilling even than the Arctic night.

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Review:

`trenchantly written'

Book Description:

'[Arctic Chills] humanity, insight and spare prose make it one of the most memorable crime novels of the year'.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1846550653
• ISBN 13: 9781846550652
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352