draining incident mysteries

books:

The Draining Lake: A Thriller (Reykjavik Thriller)

1 review
Arnaldur Indridason

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008

strong Iceland police procedural
Just outside Reykjavik, Iceland, the draining of Lake Kleifarvatn uncovers a skeleton tied to a Cold War Russian radio device. Police inspector Erlendur and his subordinates Elinborg and Oli investigate what is obviously a homicide. With a hole in the skull and the technology employed is found that the murdered corpse was dumped in the early 1970s so they seek missing persons' cases from that ...

Silence of the Grave (Reykjavik Murder Mysteries, No. 2)

21 reviews
Arnaldur Indridason

Picador, 2007

Family Values
The skeleton of a hand sticks out of the soil. Erlendur, a detective in Reykjavík, Iceland, leads a team to unearth the rest of the body which appears to have been buried for about sixty years. While the investigation goes on we are introduced, through flashbacks, to a family living in the period of WWII. This family is visited by such horrible domestic violence, that I occasionally put the book ...

Jar City: A Reykjavik Thriller

36 reviews
Arnaldur Indridason

Picador, 2005

Iceland Noir
A complete pleasure. Count me a fan. Complex enough to be intersting and to keep me guessing. The daughter gets on my nerves - wouldn't mind if she gets killed off down the road take the x-wife too - getting rid of them would just add to the Noir quality of Erlindur's character. Loved the setting - Iceland completely new to me! I am a fan of mysteries set outside the USA. This completely ...

Voices: A Reykjavik Thriller

1 review
Arnaldur Indridason

Picador, 2008

Icelandic noir
It is the week before Christmas and we are in the far north, almost guaranteed a snowy, white holiday. But it you looking for a cozy mystery, perhaps you should look elsewhere, because this book would seem to fall distinctly in the category of 'noir', defined in Merriam-Webster as "crime fiction featuring hard-boiled cynical characters and bleak sleazy settings." Yes, cynical...and yes, ...

INCIDENT IN REYKJAVIK

1 review
Warren Littleton

Xlibris Corporation, 2007

U.S. Marines in Iceland
INCIDENT AT REYKJAVIK During World War II, Adolph Hitler coveted Iceland for use as a base to eliminate convoys between the United States and Britain. German Patrol aircraft and U-boats based there would wreak havoc on allied shipping. After examining the operational problems involved, Hitler decided against invading Iceland...or did he? Lieutenant Ron Young and his platoon were part of the ...

Voices: A Thriller (Reykjavik Thriller)

11 reviews
Arnaldur Indridason

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2007

Dreaming of a Black Christmas
"Voices", the third Icelandic crime mystery written by Arnaldur Indridason and translated by Bernard Scudder, is as dark, brooding, and fatalistic as the two that preceded it. But hey, if this were Tahiti, they wouldn't call it "Iceland". And if one were to select a "Mr. Iceland" based on a personality most representative of this barren landscape of volcanoes and endless winter nights, ...