Jar City: An Inspector Erlendur Novel [Paperback]

From Gold Dagger Award--winning author Arnaldur Indridason comes a Reykjav?k thriller introducing Inspector Erlendur

When a lonely old man is found dead in his Reykjav?k flat, the only clues are a cryptic note left by the killer and a photograph of a young girl's grave. Inspector Erlendur discovers that many years ago the victim was accused, but not convicted, of an unsolved crime, a rape. Did the old man's past come back to haunt him? As Erlendur reopens this very cold case, he follows a trail of unusual forensic evidence, uncovering secrets that are much larger than the murder of one old man.

An international sensation, the Inspector Erlendur series has sold more than two million copies worldwide.

Arnaldur Indridasonwas born in 1961. He worked at an Icelandic newspaper, first as a journalist and then for many years as a reviewer. He won the Nordic Crime Novel Award forJarCityand won again for its sequel,Silence of the Grave,which also won the prestigious Gold Dagger Award. He lives in Reykjav?k, Iceland.

Fan[s] of mystery in general and Henning Mankell and Karin Fossum can only exult. Library Journal

This is a dark, haunting novel, with a protagonist who searches for a murderer and finds his own humanity. The emotionally wrought ending caught me off guard and touched me in a way that few mystery novels do. The Boston Globe

[Erlendur is] a helluva detective. Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Jar Citystresses both the otherworldliness of this faraway country and how similar its denizens are to the rest of us. . . . An excellent debut. Baltimore Sun

Indridason raises in a thoroughly gripping manner not just questions of paternity in a small nation, but wider issues of the use of genetic information, culminating in an ending that proves impressively moving. Time Out London

Award-winning Iceland author Indridason makes a col£0