The Shadow District by Arnaldur Indridason

The Shadow District by Arnaldur Indridason

THE PAST
In wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled behind the National Theatre, a rough and dangerous area of the city known as 'the shadow district'. 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 in the dead man's home reporting the shadow district murder that date back to the second world war. It's a crime that Konrad remembers, having grown up in the same neighbourhood.

A MISING LINK
Why, after all this time, would an old crime resurface? Did the police arrest the wrong man? How are these cases linked across the decades? Will Konrad's link to the past help him solve the case and finally lay the ghosts of wartime Reykjavik to rest?

THE SHADOW DISTRICT IS THE FIRST IN A MAJOR NEW SERIES OF NOVELS FROM THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELER ARNALDUR INDRIDASON

Silence of the Grave earned ARNALDUR INDRIDASON the CWA Gold Dagger Award, and he is the only author to receive the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel two years in a row. Jar City was Iceland's Oscar entry for Best Foreign Feature, and a sequel, Silence of the Grave, is currently under production with the same filmmaker. Contraband was based on an Icelandic film written by Indridason, who lives in Reykjavik, Iceland, and starred Mark Wahlberg.