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 boy's 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 Iceland's outwardly liberal, multicultural society. A teacher at the boy's 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 boy's 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 ARNALDUR INDRIDASON (Reikiavik, 1961) es autor, entre otras novelas negras, de x{0026}lt;i Las Marismasx{0026}lt;/i , que recibió La Llave de Cristal a la mejor novela policiaca nórdica del año 2002, x{0026}lt;i La vozx{0026}lt;/i , ganadora del Martin Beck Award a la mejor novela negra traducida al sueco, x{0026}lt;i El hombre del lagox{0026}lt;/i e x{0026}lt;i Invierno árticox{0026}lt;/i e x{0026}lt;i Hipotermiax{0026}lt;/i . Con x{0026}lt;i La mujer de verdex{0026}lt;/i obtuvo el Gold Dagger, que ha consagrado a Indridason 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 x{0026}lt;i Pasaje de las Sombrasx{0026}lt;/i fue galardonada con el Premio RBA de Novela Negra 2013. Escritor de éxito, sus obras han vendido más de 15 millones de ejemplares y han sido traducidas a más de 40 idiomas.x{0026}lt;/p