The Reykjavik Wartime Mystery Series - Book 1
The Shadow District
“No matter how high narrator George Guidall sets the bar, he’s over it with daylight showing…This audiobook needs a pro, too, as the intercut past-and-present structure of it offers plenty of scope for confusion…Guidall, with his warm, patient, world-weary voice, makes an exotic world immediate, both strange and accessible. Indridason is a practiced maker of noir puzzles. This is a fine one. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
A November 2017 LibraryReads Pick
A deeply compassionate story of old crimes and their consequences, The Shadow District is the first in a thrilling new series by internationally bestselling author Arnaldur Indridason.
THE PAST
In wartime Reykjavík, Iceland, a young woman is found strangled in "the shadow district", a rough and dangerous area of the city. An Icelandic detective and a member of the American military police are on the trail of a brutal killer.
THE PRESENT
A 90-year-old man is discovered dead on his bed, smothered with his own pillow. Konrad, a former detective now bored with retirement, finds newspaper cuttings reporting the WWII shadow district murder in the dead man's home. It's a crime that Konrad remembers, having grown up in the same neighborhood.
A MISSING LINK
Why, after all this time, would an old crime resurface? Did the police arrest the wrong man? Will Konrad's link to the past help him solve the case and finally lay the ghosts of WWII Reykjavík to rest?
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