Detective Erlendur series

Arctic Chill

Arctic Chill
Bok av Arnaldur Indriðason
On an icy January day the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his stomach extinguishes any hope that this was a tragic accident. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation with little to go on but the news that the boy's Thai half-brother is missing. Is he implicated, or simply afraid for his own life? The investigation soon unearths tensions simmering beneath the surface of Iceland's outwardly liberal, multicultural society. A teacher at the boy's school makes no secret of his anti-immigration stance; incidents are reported between Icelandic pupils and the disaffected children of incomers; and, to confuse matters further, a suspected paedophile has been spotted in the area. Meanwhile, the boy's murder forces Erlendur to confront the tragedy in his own past. Soon, facts are emerging from the snow-filled darkness that are more chilling even than the Arctic night.
En ung pojke hittas mördad utanför sitt hem i Reykjavik. Hans mamma kommer från Thailand och hans pappa från Island. Det finns inga spår och inga misstänkta. Är det ett rasistiskt mord, en hämnd eller är det någon som ger sig på barn? Som läsare följer man polisen letande efter en mördare. Samtidigt får man följa poliserna i deras liv; polisen Elendurs demoner och tillkortakommande samt polisen Sigurdurs funderingar kring familj och framtid.
Det är en spännande bok som utspelar sig i ett modernt multikulturellt Reykjavik.
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