| ISBN |
9780312655303 (paperback) |
| Name |
Arnaldur Indriðason, 1961- author. |
| Uniform title |
Vetrarborgin. English |
| Title |
Arctic chill / Arnaldur Indriðason ; translated from the Icelandic by Bernard Scudder and Victoria Cribb. |
| Published |
New York : Picador, [2010] |
| ©2005 |
| Description |
352 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Notes |
"A Thomas Dunne book." |
| Originally published as Vetrarborgin in Iceland by Vaka-Helgafell, Reykjavik. |
| Summary |
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. The boy's murder forces Erlendur to confront a tragedy in his own past. Soon, facts are emerging from the snow-filled darkness that are more chilling even than the Arctic night. |
| Language note |
Translated from the Icelandic. |
| Subjects |
Erlendur Sveinsson (Fictitious character) -- Fiction |
| Police -- Iceland -- Reykjavík -- Fiction |
| Immigrant children -- Crimes against -- Fiction |
| Iceland -- Race relations -- Fiction |
| Reykjavík (Iceland) -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Detective and mystery fiction |
| Other Names |
Scudder, Bernard, 1954-2007 translator. |
| Cribb, Victoria translator. |
| Series |
Inspector Erlendur novel 05. |
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