Bernard Scudder
1) Arctic chill
Author
Series
Erlendur Sveinsson mysteries volume 5
Description
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...
2) Voices
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Description
Erlendur and his colleagues have no shortage of suspects, between hotel staff and international travelers, in the stabbing of a hotel Santa Claus in Reykjavik.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009, 2008]
Description
Inspector Erlendur returns in this international Bestseller Following an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake suddenly falls, revealing a skeleton. Inspector Erlendur's investigation takes him back to the Cold War era, when bright, left-wing students in Iceland were sent to study in the "heavenly state" of Communist East Germany. Teeming with spies and informants, though, their "heavenly state" becomes a nightmare of betrayal and murder....
Author
Series
Erlendur Sveinsson mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
When the water level of an Icelandic lake suddenly falls following an earthquake to reveal a skeleton half-buried in its sandy bed, Inspector Erlendur, Elinborg, and Sigurdur Oli look into the long-unsolved disappearance of a young, left-wing student during the Cold War.
Author
Series
Thora Gudmundsdottir novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Attorney Thóra Gudmundsdóttirand her new partner, Matthew Reich, journey to a remote corner of Iceland to investigate how the murder of a German student may be connected to the victim's interest in witchcraft.
Author
Series
Erlendur Sveinsson mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson heads up the investigation into the killing of a solitary man, found murdered in his Reykjavik apartment, only to discover that the victim has only two friends, one in prison and one missing for twenty-five years, and that the dead man had been accused but not convicted of a rape forty years earlier.
9) Voices
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Erlendur and his colleagues have no shortage of suspects, between hotel staff and international travelers, in the stabbing of a hotel Santa Claus in Reykjavik.