Arctic Chill

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.

ISBN 1846550653   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9781846550652 (What's this?)   Pages 352 Publisher Vintage   Weight (grammes) 466 Imprint Harvill Secker   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 232 Publication date 04 Sep 2008   Width (mm) 155 Translator Bernard Scudder, Victoria Cribb   Spine width (mm) 26 DEWEY 839.6935   Academic level General

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