The Shadow District

OLD CRIMES, NEW CONSEQUENCES THE PAST In wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled behind the National Theatre, a rough and dangerous area of the city known as ''the shadow district''. An Icelandic detective and a member of the American military police are on the trail of a brutal killer. THE PRESENT A 90-year-old man is discovered dead on his bed, smothered with his own pillow. Konrad, a former detective now bored with retirement, finds newspaper cuttings in the dead man''s home reporting the shadow district murder that date back to the second world war. It''s a crime that Konrad remembers, having grown up in the same neighbourhood. A MISSING LINK Why, after all this time, would an old crime resurface? Did the police arrest the wrong man? How are these cases linked across the decades? Will Konrad''s link to the past help him solve the case and finally lay the ghosts of wartime Reykjavik to rest? THE SHADOW DISTRICT IS THE FIRST IN A MAJOR NEW SERIES OF NOVELS FROM THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER ARNALDUR INDRIDASON

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Arnaldur Indridason, Arnaldur Indriðason, Indridason Arnaldur
• Con la collaborazione di: Victoria Cribb (Illustrazione), Victoria Cribb (Traduzione), Cribb Victoria (Traduzione)
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 30.04.2018
• Categoria: Narrativa > Gialli
• EAN: 9781784704421
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-442-1
• Numero di pagine: 360
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 11.1 x 17.8 x 2.3 cm
• Serie: 181 POCHE
• Categorie: Oblivion, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, thrillers, Iceland, Nordic Noir, Fiction in translation, Scandi Noir, Ragnar Jonasson, Crime and mystery fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Ann Cleeves, Icelandic, living dead, the dead, top 10 fiction, scandinavian crime fiction, murder mysteries, top ten fiction, paperback fiction, camilla lackberg, yrsa sigurdardottir books in order, peter may books in order, jar city, last rituals