Jar City: A Reykjavik Thriller Audiobook

Quotes

• “A haunting and elegant novel.”

  — John Lescroart, New York Times bestselling author

• “Classic mystery fiction, both compassionate and thrilling. Arnaldur Indriðason is about to become one of the brightest stars in the genre’s dark skies.”

  — John Connolly, New York Times bestselling author

• “No wonder Arnaldur Indriðason won so many awards. He’s a great storyteller, and American readers will overwhelmingly agree.”

  — C. J. Box, New York Times bestselling author

• “Indriðason’s detective is...a deeply appealing hero.”

  — Michael Malone, New York Times bestselling author of The Killing Club

• “This is a dark, haunting novel, with a protagonist who searches for a murderer and finds his own humanity. The emotionally wrought ending caught me off guard and touched me in a way that few mystery novels do.”

  — Boston Globe

• “Jar City stresses both the otherworldliness of this faraway country and how similar its denizens are to the rest of us...An excellent debut.”

  — Baltimore Sun

• “[Erlendur is] a helluva detective.”

  — Minneapolis Star-Tribune

• “There’s much to glean about the people of Iceland from this erudite and compelling story...Jar City taps into the melancholy of Scandinavian perspective and manages to be quite thrilling, too.”

  — Rocky Mountain News

• “Fascinating...an original and puzzling mystery.”

  — Sunday Times (London)

• “This careful, sparsely written book operates at a deeper level than most crime fiction: it conveys the sense of painful inevitability underlying the old stories that medieval Icelanders told through the long winter nights.”

  — Independent (London)

• “The writing has a directness and deceptive simplicity reminiscent of Simenon...Here is a new voice that demands to be listened to!”

  — Reginald Hill, author of Dialogues of the Dead

• “A powerful, psychologically acute procedural drama.”

  — Booklist

• “The descriptions of Reykjavík and the surrounding area...are fascinating in their own right, and the plotting is riveting...Detective Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson is an intense and introspective protagonist.”

  — BookPage

• “[Indriðason’s] American debut, winner of the 2002 Nordic Crime Novel Award, is a model puzzle presented with clarity and crisp economy.”

  — Kirkus Reviews