Read Series: Inspector Erlendur
by Author Bernard Scudder
Tainted Blood (2005)
A man is found murdered in his Reykjav-k flat. There are no obvious clues apart from a cryptic note left on the body and a photograph of a young girl's grave. Detective Erlendur is forced to use all the forensic resources available to find any leads at all. Delving into the dead man's life he dis...
The Draining Lake (2007)
In the wake of an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake drops suddenly, revealing the skeleton of a man half-buried in its sandy bed. It is clear immediately that it has been there for many years. There is a large hole in the skull. Yet more mysteriously, a heavy communication device i...
Jar City (2005)
I've taken an interest to Iceland ever since I read Halldór Laxness. Seeing there are a few Icelandic authors in translation - or maybe they are indeed just a few - I wanted to explore this country through the detective novels of Arnaldur Indriðason, as well. Luckily, he gives some interesting in...
Silence of the Grave (2006)
These are addictive; it's wonderful, and a near-forgotten pleasure, to devour books reflexively as I did when I was a kid. I've been moving the next one in this series from room to room for the past couple of days whilst I make myself finish a couple of other things first. I saw a review of anot...
Kälteschlaf (2007)
this was my first Icelandic novel, I picked one at random just to understand the fuss about Nordic authors and I wasn't disappointed. However, all the "minor" stories combined with the main plot could sometimes be a little bit confusing at the beginning, in particular the details about the detect...