Hypothermia

by Arnaldur Indridason
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The latest thrilling instalment in Indridason's CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning Reykjavik Murder Mystery series.

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One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam at her holiday cottage. At first sight, it appears like a straightforward case of suicide; María had never recovered from the death of her mother two years previously and she had a history of depression. But then the friend who found her body approaches Detective Erlendur with a tape of a séance that María attended before her death and his curiosity is aroused... Driven by a need to find answers, Erlendur begins an unofficial investigation into María's death. But he is also haunted by another unsolved mystery - the disappearance of two young people thirty years ago - and by his own quest to find the body of his brother, who died in a blizzard when he was a boy. Hypothermia is Indridason's most compelling novel yet

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Best Crime Novels of the Decade

by Random House Australia on 15 February 2010

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The UK's Time newspaper has picked its Top Ten favourite crime books of the decade, including Random House's MYSTIC RIVER by Denis LeHane, THE POWER OF THE DOG by Don Winslow, WASH THIS BLOOD CLEAN FROM MY HAND by Fred Vargas and HYPOTHERMIA by Arnaldur Indridason.

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Editorial Reviews

"Indridason has a remarkable understanding of grief and its persistence ... Indridason combines psychological acuteness with great stylistic economy and a pleasing place" - Jane Jakeman, Independent

"...an insightful human story, beautifully written and translated..." - Jessica Mann, Literary Review

"Our love affair with Scandinavian crime continues with the latest instalment of Indridason's award-winning Icelandic murder mystery series" - Daily Express

"Descriptions of Iceland's stunning crystalline landscape are lyrical and the overall storyline thoughtful and original" - Carla McKay, Daily Mail

"An intelligent, gripping and moody tale with superior characterisation" - Marcel Berlins, The Times

"Indridason's best novel so far" - Books Quarterly

"The narrative grips, the writing, excellently translated by Cribb, is resonant and Lyrical, and the atmosphere is chillingly creepy. Brrr" - Laura Wilson, Guardian

"A personal odyssey, suffused with a melancholy that, like the icy chill, seeps into the bones" - Alastair Mabbott, The Herald

"The narrative grips, the writing is resonant and lyrical, and the atmosphere chillingly creepy. Brrr" - Barry Forshaw & Laura Wilson, The Times, The Best Crime novels of 2009

"Hypothermia is one of the most haunting crime novels I've read in a long time, unsentimental yet informed throughout by Indridason's extraordinary empathy with human suffering" - Joan Smith, The Sunday Times

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