The Shadow District

Индридасон Арнальдур

Жанр Криминальный детектив, Исторический детектив

Подборка Flovent and Thorson

Год 2020

ISBN: 978-1-911215-05-9

Язык Английский

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A 90-year-old man is found dead in his bed, smothered with his own pillow. On his desk the police find newspaper cuttings about a murder case dating from the Second World War, when a young woman was found strangled behind Reykjavík’s National Theatre. Konrád, a former detective, is bored with retirement and remembers the crime. He grew up in ‘the shadow district’, a rough neighbourhood bordered by the National Theatre and an abattoir. Why would someone be interested in that crime now? He starts his own unofficial enquiry. Alternating between Konrád’s investigation and the original police inquiry, we discover that two girls had been...

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