The Draining Lake
Arnaldur Indridason author Bernard Scudder translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:7th Oct '10
£9.99
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A brilliant new mystery from the winner of the CWA Gold Dagger - haunting, gripping and provoking.
A skeleton is found half-buried in a dried out lake. The bones have been weighed down with an radio transmitter: is this a clue to the victim, and the killer's identity? Detective Erlendur is called in to investigate and discovers that there may be a connection with a group of students who were sent to study in East Germany during the Cold War.
A REYKJAVIK MURDER MYSTERY.
A skeleton is found half-buried in a dried out lake. The bones have been weighed down with an old radio transmitter: is this a clue to the victim, and the killer's identity?
Detective Erlendur is called in to investigate and discovers that there may be a connection with a group of students who were sent to study in East Germany during the Cold War, and with a young man who walked out of his family home one day, never to return.
As the mystery deepens, Erlendur and his team must unravel a story of international espionage, murder and betrayal.
A haunting, compassionate work * Observer *
Indridason manages to keep the reader guessing about the identity of both killer and victim right to the last * Sunday Express *
An absorbing story which confirms Indridason's place among the leading writers of Nordic crime fiction * Sunday Telegraph *
Beautifully written and translated, the novel has both a strong sense of place and themes that transcend it; it confirms Indridason as one of those crime writers who rises above genre, combining suspense with moving insights into the human condition * Sunday Times *
Indridason pieces together a convincing plot, while exploring universal issues of political idealism and shattered dreams * Daily Mirror *
ISBN: 9780099542216
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 24mm
Weight: 266g
384 pages