Black Skies

A man is making a crude leather mask with an iron spike fixed in the middle of the forehead. It is a 'death mask', once used by Icelandic farmers to slaughter calves, and he has revenge in mind.

Meanwhile, a school reunion has left Sigurdur Óli unhappy with life in the police force. While Iceland is enjoying an economic boom, his relationship is on the rocks and soon even his position in the CID is compromised after he agrees to visit a couple of blackmailers as a favour to a friend, and walks in just as a woman is beaten unconscious. When she dies, Sigurdur Óli has a murder investigation on his hands.

Moving from the villas of Reykjavík's banking elite to a sordid basement flat, Black Skies is a superb story of greed, pride and murder from one of Europe's most successful crime writers.

About the author

Der preisgekrönte Schriftsteller Arnaldur Indriðason, geboren 1961, war Journalist und Filmkritiker bei Islands größter Tageszeitung. Heute lebt er als freier Autor in Reykjavik.

Product details

• Authors: Arnaldur Indridason, Arnaldur Indridason, Arnaldur Indriðason
• Assisted by: Victoria Cribb (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.06.2013
• EAN: 9780099563365
• ISBN: 978-0-09-956336-5
• No. of pages: 451
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 180 mm x 29 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; Isländische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.)