Black Skies - Hardcover

Indridason, Arnaldur

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1846555817 ISBN 13: 9781846555817

Publisher: Harvill Secker, 2012

Synopsis

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 Óli unhappy with life in the police force. While Iceland is enjoying an economic boom, his relationship is on the rocks and soon even his position in the CID is compromised after he agrees to visit a couple of blackmailers as a favour to a friend, and walks in just as a woman is beaten unconscious. When she dies, Sigurdur Óli has a murder investigation on his hands.

Moving from the villas of Reykjavķk's banking elite to a sordid basement flat, Black Skies is a superb story of greed, pride and murder from one of Europe's most successful crime writers.

About this title

Review:

"Blackmail and murder stalk Indridason's latest dispatch from the icy volcanic nation" (Henry Sutton Mirror)

"An international literary phenomenon - and it's easy to see why. His novels are gripping, authentic, haunting and lyrical" (HARLAN COBEN)

"The plot is a satisfying and topical one... Brilliant stuff" (Maxine Clark Eurocrime)

"A perfect horror story" (Julia Handford Sunday Telegraph)

"In a stormily atmospheric mystery, grotesque crimes coincide with foreshadowings of doom" (Independent, i)

Book Description:

From high life to low life, bankers to blackmailers: the international phenomenon Arnaldur Indridason returns with a thrillingly contemporary new mystery.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1846555817
• ISBN 13: 9781846555817
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336