Hypothermia, Arnaldur Indridason
Hypothermia, Arnaldur Indridason
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Hypothermia

Author: Arnaldur Indriđason, Victoria Cribb

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 8 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/08/2011


Synopsis

"Indriđason fills the void that remains after you've read Stieg Larsson's novels."—USA Today on Hypothermia Inspector Erlunder has spent his entire career struggling to evade the ghosts of his past. But ghosts are visiting him, both in the form of a séance attended by a dead woman and also in the reemerging puzzle of two young people who went missing 30 years ago. And there's the ghost of the detective's disastrous marriage, which, despite the pleas of his drug-addled daughter, he is unwilling to confront. In addition, he's still obsessed with the disappearance of his brother, who vanished without a trace when they were boys. He can only run from his ghosts for so long, and, when they finally catch up with him, Erlunder is forced to face the heart shattering truth of his past. One of the most haunting crime novels readers are likely to encounter this year or any other, this mystery set in Iceland belongs on the shelf of every serious reader of suspense fiction. Hypothermia will chill you to the bone.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on August 05, 2013

If I were Detective Erlendur Sveinsson's superior in the Reykjavik CID, I would have long ago had him fired. Here he spends 98% of Hypothermia nosing about a case of suicide when even he was convinced that it wasn't murder. Erlendur got obsessed, as he was wont to do, because the young woman who han......more

Goodreads review by Amos on January 27, 2023

MAN, what a book!! What a superior chapter in this fantastic series!! What wonderful gloom!! What heartbreaking happenings!! Oh to win and yet still lose!! Oh to know the truth devoid of proof!! Oh what beautiful catastrophes!! I. LOVE. THIS. FRIGGIN'. AUTHOR!! 5 Gobsmacked Stars......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on April 27, 2010

There's a subtle elegance to this particular story, considering it's a novel of crime fiction. There are no raging maniacs with axes hanging about, no serial killers, and no serious threats to the people of Reykjavik. In fact, there seems to be a lull in crime as this story opens, and Erlendur has s......more

Goodreads review by Mike on July 27, 2019

While reading this novel (#8 in the series) I told my wife "If you want to read something where there is hardly any action but the main character is interesting nonetheless, this is it." Erlunder, our Icelandic detective, is looking at a couple of cold cases, missing persons who disappeared years ago......more

Goodreads review by Carlo on January 14, 2022

Erlendur en solo. Totalement hors piste. Il se ferait virer de n'importe quelle boîte par sa hiérarchie mais, pour le lecteur, un régal, ce flic solitaire, triste, hanté par son passé, souvent débordé par son présent, mais d'une humanité, une sensibilité extraordinaires. Jamais mièvre, jamais vulgai......more