Arctic Chill

Resumen del libro

On an icy January day the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his stomach extinguishes any hope that this was a tragic accident.
Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation with little to go on but the news that the boys Thai half-brother is missing. Is he implicated, or simply afraid for his own life? The investigation soon unearths tensions simmering beneath the surface of Icelands outwardly liberal, multicultural society. A teacher at the boys school makes no secret of his anti-immigration stance; incidents are reported between Icelandic pupils and the disaffected children of incomers; and, to confuse matters further, a suspected paedophile has been spotted in the area. Meanwhile, the boys murder forces Erlendur to confront the tragedy in his own past.
Soon, facts are emerging from the snow-filled darkness that are more chilling even than the Arctic night.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong ARNALDUR INDRIDASONx{0026}lt;/strong (Reikiavik, 1961)x{0026}lt;/p x{0026}lt;p Es autor, entre otras novelas negras, de x{0026}lt;em Las Marismasx{0026}lt;/em , que recibió La Llave de Cristal a la mejor novela policiaca nórdica el año 2002, y x{0026}lt;em La vozx{0026}lt;/em , ganadora del Martin Beck Award a la mejor novela negra traducida al sueco. Con x{0026}lt;em La mujer de verdex{0026}lt;/em obtuvo el Gold Dagger, que le consagró como un referente de la mejor narrativa negra europea. También ha sido ganador del Premio de la Crítica Francesa a la Mejor Novela Negra y del Premio RBA de Novela Negra. Escritor de éxito, sus obras han vendido más de 18 millones de ejemplares y han sido traducidas a más de 40 idiomas.x{0026}lt;/p