The Draining Lake

Detective Inspector Erlendur is enjoying his summer vacation shut up in his apartment, reading one of his favorite missing-persons stories, when a skeleton tied to a Russian listening device is uncovered. Erlendur takes over the investigation with his usual dogged and obsessive style. No one else really cares about a murdered missing person who might have been a spy, but Erlendur refuses to give up his quest, even if it means digging into Iceland’s socialist past. Erlendur’s enigmatic and irascible former boss, Marion, becomes more than a voice on the phone, as Erlendur, after learning that Marion is seriously ill, begins to visit him. The development of the series characters helps move along the leisurely investigation and keeps the reader engaged. The missing-persons theme and the exploration of Icelandic history and society remain the trademarks of this outstanding series. Caution — British spelling.

Author: Indridason Arnaldur
ISBN: 1846550955
Year of publication: 2007
Collection: Detective Erlendur
Translator: Scudder Bernard
Genre: Detective
Number of pages: 299
Reading time: 4 h. 59 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
Language: english
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