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Arnaldur Indridason worked for many years as a journalist and critic before he began writing novels. His books have since sold over 20 million copies worldwide. Outside Iceland, he is best known for his crime novels featuring Erlendur and Sigurdur Óli, which are consistent bestsellers across Europe. The series has won numerous awards, including the Nordic Glass Key and the CWA Gold Dagger. The Shadow District – the first book in the Reykjavík Wartime Mystery series – won the Premio RBA de Novela Negra, the world’s most lucrative crime fiction prize.one of the most haunting crime novels you can expect to read: unsentimental, yet informed throughout by Indridason’s extraordinary empathy with human suffering
The Times
An intelligent, gripping and moody tale with superior characterisation
- Marcel Berlins, The Times
The narrative grips, the writing, excellently translated by Cribb, is resonant and lyrical, and the atmosphere is chillingly creepy
- Laura Wilson, Guardian
<i>Hypothermia</i> is one of the most haunting crime novels I've read in a long time, unsentimental yet informed by the author's extraordinary empathy with human suffering
- Joan Smith, Sunday Times
An insightful human story, beautifully written and translated
- Jessica Mann, Literary Review
Descriptions of Iceland's stunning crystalline landscape are lyrical and the overall storyline thoughtful and original
- Carla McKay, Daily Mail
Indridason's best novel so far
Books Quarterly
Indridason has a remarkable understanding of grief and its persistence... Indridason combines psychological acuteness with great stylistic economy and a pleasing pace
- Jane Jakeman, Independent
A personal odyssey, suffused with a melancholy that, like the icy chill, seeps into the bones
- Alastair Mabbott, Herald
This Icelandic novelist keeps on getting better
Sunday Times