Shadow District

LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018The first instalment in the thrilling new crime series from worldwide bestseller Arnaldur IndridasonTHE PASTIn wartime Reykjav k, a young woman is found strangled in a dangerous area 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 PRESENTAn elderly man is discovered dead on his bed, smothered with his own pillow. Konr d, a retired detective, finds old newspaper cuttings in the man s home reporting the shadow district murder. It s a crime Konr d remembers, having grown up in the same neighbourhood. A MISSING LINK Why, after all this time, would an old crime resurface? How are these events connected across the decades? And will Konr d s link to the past help him solve the case and finally lay the ghosts of wartime Reykjav k to rest? Arnaldur Indridason introduces a new hero Beautifully told The Times An international literary phenomenon Harlan Coben