The Shadow District: Arnaldur Indridason

The first instalment in the thrilling new crime series from worldwide bestseller Arnaldur Indridason

The Past

In wartime Reykjavik, 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 Present

An elderly man is discovered dead on his bed, smothered with his own pillow. Konrad, a retired detective, finds old newspaper cuttings in the man`s home reporting the shadow district murder. It`s a crime Konrad 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 Konrad`s link to the past help him solve the case and finally lay the ghosts of wartime Reykjavik to rest?