Erlendur sveinsson is called to a large, busy hotel at the peak of the christmas season. An inspector erlendur novel ebook written by arnaldur indridason. The swedish translation of the novel anglarosten won swedens martin beck award for the best crime novel in translation. An inspector erlendur novel and millions of other books are available. Arnaldur indridason, author, bernard scudder, translator, trans. Jan 11, 2010 summon reykjaviks gloomiest detective of course. Sep 02, 2008 arnaldur indridason took the international crime fiction scene by storm after winning englands cwa gold dagger award for silence of the grave. Reykjavik born on the 28th of january, 1961, arnaldur indridason was the son of indrioi porsteinsson, another icelandic author of great repute. So opens arnaldur indridasons awardwinning 2005 novel silence of the grave translated by bernard scudder. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Win a copy of arnaldur indridasons outrage and four other books in picador book clubs halloween.
I was interested to continue with the series and see how it develops, but this third book in the series to be translated into english did not show much development at all. He is also the winner of the highly respected and world famous cwa gold dagger award for the top crime novel of the year in the english language, silence of the grave. Arnaldur received his degree in history from the university of iceland, then worked as a journalist, freelance writer and film critic. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading voices. He is an internationally bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than forty languages, and have sold. The christmas rush is at its peak in a grand reykjavik. Voices is set around christmas, and centres around the murder of gudlaugur, known as gulli, the doorman at a big reykjavik hotel who also does a lot of odd jobs around the place. Despite the holiday rush and the hustle and bustle in reykjavik, police inspector erlendur is feeling anything but jolly in arnaldur indridasons voices, the fifth installment of the series featuring icelands somber detective.
See the complete inspector erlendur english translation order series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. An indepth guide to all the books in arnaldur indridasons detective erlendur series, set in iceland. In voices, santa is found murdered in the basement of a posh hotel. He worked as a journalist for the newspaper morgunbla.
Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the inspector erlendur series, books. He was set to appear as santa claus at a hotel christmas ball, but when they went down to the small room where he lived they found him dead. He graduated with a degree in history from the university of iceland haskoli islands in 1996. The shadow killer is the extraordinary second book in the compelling new series from awardwinning icelandic author arnaldur.
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