As Christmas Day approaches, Erlendur must deal with his difficult daughter, pursue a possible romantic interest, and untangle a long-buried web of malice and greed to find the murderer. The Christmas rush is at its peak in a grand Reykjavík hotel when Inspector Erlendur is called in to investigate a murder. As Erlendur tries to crack this cold case, he must also save his drug-addicted daughter from self destruction and somehow glue his hopelessly fractured family back together. When a skeleton is discovered half-buried in a construction site outside of Reykjavík, Inspector Erlendur finds himself knee-deep in both a crime scene and an archeological dig. Did the old man's past come back to haunt him? As Erlendur reopens this very cold case, he follows a trail of unusual forensic evidence, uncovering secrets that are much larger than the murder of one old man. Arnaldur Indridason is an Icelandic writer of crime fiction most of his books feature the protagonist Detective Erlendur.
Decades later, somewhere in the same wilderness, Erlendur is on the hunt for Matthildur but also for a long-lost brother, whose disappearance has coloured his entire life. But Matthildur leaves in her wake rumours of lies, betrayal and revenge. When a lonely old man is found dead in his Reykjavík flat, the only clues are a cryptic note left by the killer and a photograph of a young girl's grave. A young woman walks into the frozen fjords of Iceland, never to be seen again. English translation books 1-3, overall books 3-5.
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