Victoria Cribb Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

The novel that put Sjon on the international map, now published by Sceptre in a stunning new package.

1945: a German bomber flies over Iceland in a blizzard; the crew have lost their way and eventually crash on the Vatnaj kull glacier, the largest in Europe. Puzzlingly, there are both German and American officers on board.

Op een ijzige januaridag wordt het lichaam van een kind gevonden in de tuin van een appartementencomplex in Reykjavík: een donker jongetje ligt dood in de bebloede sneeuw. Als Erlendur, Elínborg en Sigurdur Óli in barre weersomstandigheden met hun onderzoek beginnen, vermoeden zij dat de dader uit racistische motieven handelde. Wat zij tijdens hun zoektocht aan het licht brengen, geeft een onthutsend beeld van een gesloten samenleving.

One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam in her summer cottage by Lake Thingvellir. At first sight it appears to be a straightforward case of suicide; the woman, Mar�a, had never recovered from the loss of her mother two years earlier and had a history of depression. But when Karen, the friend who found her body, approaches Erlendur and gives him the tape of a s�ance that Mar�a had attended, his curiosity is aroused. Driven by a need to find answers that even he does not fully understand, Erlendur embarks on an unofficial investigation to find out why the woman's life ended in such an abrupt and tragic manner. At the same time he is haunted by the unresolved cases of two young people who went missing thirty years before, and, inevitably, his discoveries raise ghosts from his own past.