The draining lake
Following an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake suddenly falls, revealing a skeleton that is weighed down by a heavy radio device bearing inscriptions in Russian. Inspectors Erlendur, Elinborg, and Sigurdur Oli's investigation takes them back to the Cold War era, when bright, left...
| Main Author: | Arnaldur Indriðason, 1961- |
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| Other Authors: | Scudder, Bernard, 1954-2007. |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Icelandic |
| Published: |
New York :
Thomas Dunne Books,
2008.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
Following an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake suddenly falls, revealing a skeleton that is weighed down by a heavy radio device bearing inscriptions in Russian. Inspectors Erlendur, Elinborg, and Sigurdur Oli's investigation takes them back to the Cold War era, when bright, left-wing students in Iceland were sent to study in the "heavenly state" of Communist East Germany. But one of the students went missing, and her friends suspected that her "heavenly state" was all too real. Erlendur follows a long cold trail that leads back to Iceland, international espionage, and murder.--From Amazon.com |
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| Physical Description: |
312 p. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780312358730 (alk. paper) 0312358733 (alk. paper) 9780312428587 (pbk.) |
| Author Notes: |
Arnaldur's first published book, Sons of Dust (Synir duftsins) in 1997, is the first in the Detective Erlendur series. Arnaldur's books have been published in twenty-six countries and have been translated into Russian, Polish, German, Greek, Danish, Catalan, English, Italian, Czech, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Chinese, Croatian, Romanian and French. He won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award in 2005 for the novel Silence of the Grave. Arnaldur lives in Reykjavík with his wife and three children. (Bowker Author Biography) |