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Loading... Arctic Chill (2005)by Arnaldur Indriðason
  
No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) VivienneR | May 9, 2023 |  Set in Iceland a little boy called Elias half Thai has been found murdered, his older brother Niran is missing. Erlenedur and his team are desperate to find the missing brother. The Police question everyone from the School and Neighbourhood. They think it might be a Racist attack. Erleneedur has his own demons he cant forget about the time when he was young him and his brother got lost in a blizzard. His Brother has never been found. It turns out it was 3 young boys from Elias school who stabbed him then the Parents tried to cover it up. Good book this well written and flows nicely. (  ) Daftboy1 | Oct 3, 2021 | ) Stephen.Lawton | Aug 7, 2021 | ) Ma_Washigeri | Jan 23, 2021 |  ) WiebkeK | Jan 21, 2021 |
 Is there such a thing as a perfect crime-fiction novel? Probably not, but if there were, this would surely be a strong contender. Arnaldur Indridason's latest novel in the Inspector Erlendur series continues the upward trend in quality, confidence and storytelling that I have come to hope for, even dare to expect, with each new outing. Tragically, Indridason's translator, Bernard Scudder died before he had completed work on ARCTIC CHILL, but Victoria Cribb has stepped in and the result seems to be a seamless one....This author is brilliant at speaking to the reader at the level at which the reader desires, so one can either ignore the economically presented character studies and get on with the plot, or revel in them and find further insight behind the sparse prose. For me, this author understands internal suffering all too well, and can convey the sadness of daily life in a dispassionate yet empathetic way.  The books of Icelandic crime writer Arnaldur Indridason may seem esoteric, but this is a situation that is fast changing. A film adaptation of his Jar City has won rave reviews, and UK bookselling chains are promoting crime in translation...An opaque Icelandic police procedural that's all shades of grey...  ...may well be the most thoroughly depressing of all the gloomy police procedurals coming out of those cold lands near the Arctic Circle. But since the storyteller is Arnaldur Indridason, this Icelandic tale is delivered with exquisite sensitivity, in a moody translation...
On an icy January day, the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his stomach extinguishes any hope that this was a tragic accident. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation with little to go on but the news that the boy's Thai half-brother is missing. Is he implicated, or simply afraid for his own life? The investigation soon unearths tensions simmering beneath the surface of Iceland's outwardly liberal, multicultural society. The boy's murder forces Erlendur to confront a tragedy in his own past. Soon, facts are emerging from the snow-filled darkness that are more chilling even than the Arctic night. No library descriptions found. |
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 Google Books — Loading...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)839.6934Literature German literature and literatures of related languages Other Germanic literatures Old Norse, Old Icelandic, Icelandic, Faroese literatures Modern West Scandinavian; Modern Icelandic Modern Icelandic fiction 1900-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage: (3.63)
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