Arnaldur Indridason. (2006). Jar City: An Inspector Erlendur Series Series, Book 1. 1 St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Arnaldur Indridason. 2006. Jar City: An Inspector Erlendur Series Series, Book 1. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Arnaldur Indridason, Jar City: An Inspector Erlendur Series Series, Book 1. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2006.

Arnaldur Indridason. Jar City: An Inspector Erlendur Series Series, Book 1. 1 St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2006.

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   • bioText: ARNALDUR INDRIÐASON won the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Silence of the Grave and is the only author to win the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel two years in a row, for Jar City and Silence of the Grave. Strange Shores was nominated for the 2014 CWA Gold Dagger Award.
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From Gold Dagger Award—winning author Arnaldur Indridason comes a Reykjavík thriller introducing Inspector Erlendur
When a lonely old man is found dead in his Reykjavík flat, the only clues are a cryptic note left by the killer and a photograph of a young girl's grave. Inspector Erlendur discovers that many years ago the victim was accused, but not convicted, of an unsolved crime, a rape. Did the old man's past come back to haunt him? As Erlendur reopens this very cold case, he follows a trail of unusual forensic evidence, uncovering secrets that are much larger than the murder of one old man.
An international sensation, the Inspector Erlendur series has sold more than two million copies worldwide.

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     "Fan[s] of mystery in general and Henning Mankell and Karin Fossum can only exult."

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   • source: The Boston Globe
   • content: "This is a dark, haunting novel, with a protagonist who searches for a murderer and finds his own humanity. The emotionally wrought ending caught me off guard and touched me in a way that few mystery novels do."
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   • source: Minneapolis Star-Tribune
   • content: "[Erlendur is] a helluva detective."
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   • source: Baltimore Sun
   • content: "Jar City stresses both the otherworldliness of this faraway country and how similar its denizens are to the rest of us. . . . An excellent debut."
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   • source: Time Out London
   • content: "Indridason raises in a thoroughly gripping manner not just questions of paternity in a small nation, but wider issues of the use of genetic information, culminating in an ending that proves impressively moving."
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   • source: The Portsmouth Herald
   • content: "Award-winning Iceland author Indridason makes a compelling American debut with this first in a series featuring Reykjavík police inspector Erlendur. . . . Quiet, morose, dryly witty, Erlendur makes a fine, complex companion. . . . Those who enjoy Karin Fossum, Henning Mankell, or Janwillem van de Wetering will welcome this new series."
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     September 5, 2005
     When a lone septuagenarian is murdered in his apartment in the Nordurmýri district of Reykjavík, detective inspector Erlendur Sveinsson is called in, along with partner Sigurdur Óli and female colleague Elínborg. Everyone is related to everyone else in Iceland and refer to one another by first name, even formally. Erlendur is about 50, long divorced, with two kids in varying degrees of drug addiction. The victim, a man called Holberg, turns out to have been a nasty piece of work, and Erlendur is disgusted by the series of rapes Holberg apparently committed. The rapes and the deaths of a number of young women may be connected, and the search brings Erlendur to the forensic lab, whose old "jar city," since disbanded, held research organs. Meanwhile, Erlendur's daughter, Eva Lind, is pregnant and still using; she flits in and out of his life angrily, but may be crying out for help. Reykjavík's physicality, and the fact that crimes are relatively rare in Iceland, gives things a defamiliarizing cast. The writing, plot and resolution are nicely done, but remain fully within genre boundaries.

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     Starred review from October 1, 2005
     Soon after 69-year-old Holberg is found murdered in his Reykjaví k basement flat with a cryptic note on his body, his status as an innocent victim shifts. It is revealed that the old man had committed unrecorded rapes some 40 years earlier, at least one of which resulted in the birth of a child. Detective Inspector Erlendur's case starts off with a photograph of a child's grave and eventually involves tracking down rape victims, hunting for a missing brain in Jar City (the teaching hospital room in which organs are stored), and looking into genetic diseases. Dogged and intuitive at work, Erlendur otherwise seems a somewhat scruffy everyman -the result of having gone through a messy divorce and having had little contact with his two grown children. But then his daughter, now a pregnant and debt-ridden drug addict, turns up at his door. Icelandic thriller writer Indridason's American debut captures the reader's attention with its direct prose and depiction of a distinctive culture. This moody, atmospheric police procedural won the 2002 Nordic Crime Novel Award, and its sequel is forthcoming. Fan of mystery in general and Henning Mankell and Karin Fossum can only exult. -Michele Leber, Arlington, VA

     Copyright 2005 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     October 15, 2005
     It's hardly surprising that there is a thriving crime-fiction scene in Iceland (insular worlds with forbidding climates breed crime quite nicely); it is surprising, on the other hand, that it's taken until now for any Icelandic mysteries to penetrate the U.S. market. We're off to a fast start with this gripping procedural starring Inspector Erlendur Sveinnson, a veteran detective with the Reykjavik police. Murder is relatively rare in Reykjavik, and it is usually solved easily (crimes of passion are the norm). This time, though, there are no easy answers. The brutal killing of a lonely pensioner seems inexplicable until Erlendur (Icelanders always address one another by first name) begins to track back through the man's life, uncovering not only a plethora of dirty secrets but also a genealogical trail whose tentacles appear to stretch throughout the country (in Iceland, "everyone seemed related or connected in some way"). There is a Ross Macdonald element to all this rummaging in familial closets, but the emotional pain Erlendur feels as he gets closer to the truth recalls Madeleine Nabb and Donna Leon. A powerful, psychologically acute procedural drama.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2005, American Library Association.)

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An international sensation, the Inspector Erlendur series has sold more than two million copies worldwide.

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