The Draining Lake

Informationen zum Autor Arnaldur Indridason worked for many years as a journalist and critic before he began writing novels. His books have since sold over 20 million copies worldwide. Outside Iceland, he is best known for his crime novels featuring Erlendur and Sigurdur Óli, which are consistent bestsellers across Europe. The series has won numerous awards, including the Nordic Glass Key and the CWA Gold Dagger. The Shadow District - the first book in the Reykjavík Wartime Mystery series - won the Premio RBA de Novela Negra, the world's most lucrative crime fiction prize. Klappentext Arnaldur Indridason worked for many years as a journalist and critic before he began writing novels. His books have since sold over 12 million copies worldwide. Outside Iceland, he is best known for his crime novels featuring Erlendur and Sigurdur ¿i, which are consistent bestsellers across Europe. The series has won numerous awards, including the Nordic Glass Key and the CWA Gold Dagger. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Arnaldur Indridason, Arnaldur Indriðason
• Assisted by: Bernard Scudder (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.10.2010
• EAN: 9780099542216
• ISBN: 978-0-09-954221-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS; Kommissar Erlendur; Erlendur Sveinsson (Kommissar Erlendur); Erlendur Sveinsson (Kommissar Erlendur); Reykjavik Murder Mysteries
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Isländische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.)