Black Skies

Resumen del libro

man is making a crude leather mask with slits for eyes and mouth, and an iron spike fixed in the middle of the forehead. It is a 'death mask', once used by Icelandic farmers to slaughter calves. He has revenge in mind.

Meanwhile, with Detective Erlendur absent, his colleague Sigurdur Oli is in the spotlight.

A school reunion has left Sigurdur Oli dissatisfied with life in the police force. Iceland is enjoying an economic boom and young tycoons are busy partying with the international jet set. In contrast, Sigurdur Oli's relationship is on the rocks and soon even his position in the CID is compromised: when he agrees to visit a couple of blackmailers as a favour to a friend he walks in just as a woman is beaten unconscious.

When she dies, Sigurdur Oli has a murder investigation on his hands.

The evidence leads to debt collectors, extortionists, wild parties. But when a chance link connects these enquiries to the activities of a group of young bankers, Sigurdur Oli finds himself investigating the very elite he had envied.

Moving from the villas of Reykjavik's banking elite to a sordid basement flat, Black Skies is a superb story of greed, pride and murder from one of Europe's most successful crime writers.

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