... and even Iceland (a country of only 200,000 residents) have become a fixture on bestsellers lists. Icelandic crime novelist Arnaldur Indridason, winner of the 2005 Gold Dagger award, is the author ... between reader and authority figure--in this case a detective who investigates murders. But Indridason's writing renders Erlendur not so much as obligatorily flawed as a character ...

Pretty lazy day today. Finished the whole book in one go. It is the usual rather gloomy stuff from Inspector Erlender - perhaps he's a little more cheerful this time than usual and seems to be getting on with his kids for a change. In which he solves a murder that everyone thinks was suicide and, at the same time, solves a 30 year-old missing persons case or 2 of them actually. Good one.

... ttir, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson Guió: Baltasar Kormakur, segons la novel•la d’Arnaldur Indridason El detective Erlandur de la policía de Reikiavik tiene que resolver un caso de ... más recurso al “flash-back” que en lo estrictamente necesario. El novelista Arnaldur Indridason ha sido también el guionista de la ...

... think I'll just list stuff. * In the Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrent * Sydney by Jan Morris * Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett * Arctic Chill by Arnaldur Indridason * Fiasco: A History of Hollywood's Iconic Flops by James Parrish I know there are more, but I can't remember at the moment.

... as well as PD James' nonfiction treatise on detective fiction. The Globe & Mail's Margaret Cannon analyzes recent mysteries and thrillers by Arnaldur Indridason, Louise Penny, Barbara Fradkin, R.J. Harlick, Leslie Crewe and Ethan Brown. Tom & Enid Schantz round up new mysteries by Tasha Alexander, ...

... Sebastian Barry and Joseph O’Neill are jostling with the largest number of books in translation ever nominated for the prize, including works by Icelandic crime novelist Arnaldur Indridason, Chinese author Ma Jian and Serbian surrealist Zoran Zivkovic. Evelio Rosero’s Colombian civil war-set The Armies, which won the ...