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