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The Shadow District is the stunning first book in the compelling new series from award-winning Icelandic author Arnaldur Indridason, whom reviewers are calling "a master." A 90-year-old man is found dead in his bed, smothered with his own pillow. On his desk the police find newspaper cuttings about a murder case dating from the Second World War, when a young woman was found strangled behind Reykjavik's National Theatre. Konrad, a former detective, is bored with retirement and remembers the crime. He grew up in 'the shadow district', a rough neighborhood bordered by the National Theatre. Why would someone be interested in that crime now? He starts his own unofficial enquiry. Alternating between Konrad's investigation and the original police inquiry, we discover that two girls had been attacked in oddly similar circumstances. Did the police arrest the wrong man? How are these cases linked across the decades? And who is the old man? A deeply compassionate story of old crimes and their consequences, The Shadow District is the first in a thrilling new series of novels by the worldwide bestselling author Arnaldur Indridason.
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“No matter how high narrator George Guidall sets the bar, he’s over it with daylight showing…This audiobook needs a pro, too, as the intercut past-and-present structure of it offers plenty of scope for confusion…Guidall, with his warm, patient, world-weary voice, makes an exotic world immediate, both strange and accessible. Indridason is a practiced maker of noir puzzles. This is a fine one. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“There’s always a solid sense of history in Arnaldur Indridason’s moody Icelandic mysteries. With his usual delicate touch, Indridason weaves in just enough folklore to remind us that a nation can never live down its legends.”
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“Gripping and deeply satisfying.”
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“Riveting, in [Arnaldur’s] distinctive style, and highly recommended.”
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“The steady progression of unearthing clues and witnesses to the mysteries is so riveting.”
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“A seductively menacing thriller…thrilling and emotionally devastating.”
— Washington Book Review
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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A November 2017 LibraryReads Pick
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About Arnaldur Indridason
Arnaldur Indridason won the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Silence of the Grave and is the only author to win the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel two years in a row, for Jar City and Silence of the Grave. The Draining Lake won the 2009 Barry Award for Best Novel.
About George Guidall
George Guidall, winner of more than eighty AudioFile Earphones Awards, has won three of the prestigious Audie Award for Excellence in Audiobook Narration. In 2014 the Audio Publishers Association presented him with the Special Achievement Award for lifetime achievement/ During his thirty-year recording career he has recorded over 1,700 audiobooks, won multiple awards, been a mentor to many narrators, and shown by example the potential of fine storytelling. His forty-year acting career includes starring roles on Broadway, an Obie Award for best performance off Broadway, and frequent television appearances.