The Shadow Killer

Resumen del libro

Reykjavik, August 1941. When a travelling salesman is found murdered in a basement flat, killed by a bullet from a Colt .45, the police initially suspect a member of the Allied occupation force.

The British are in the process of handing over to the Americans and the streets are crawling with servicemen whose relations with the local women are a major cause for concern.

Flovent, Reykjavik's sole detective, is joined by the young military policeman Thorson. Their investigation focuses on a family of German residents, the retired doctor Rudolf Lunden and his estranged son Felix, who is on the run, suspected of being a spy.

Flovent and Thorson race to solve the case and to stay ahead of US counter-intelligence, amid rumours of a possible visit by Churchill.

As evidence emerges of dubious experiments carried out on Icelandic schoolboys in the 1930s,Thorson becomes increasingly suspicious of the role played by the murdered man's former girlfriend, Vera, and her British soldier lover.

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