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stuartr
Single Cell Organism
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 Posted - 13 October 2009 : 9:20:39 PM
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Scandinavian crime writing is a busy genre, but for me one of the stand out authors is Arnaldur Indridason the Icelandic journalist turned crime writer.
The series of books involving Erlendur are full of the bleakness of the Icelandic countryside which adds a brooding backdrop to the novels. The chief protagonist is the world weary detective Erlendur, who is struggling to cope with his drug addict daughter and the continued fallout from his divorce in which his wife poisoned his kids against him.
Characters in the book are developed and have real depth, plots are involved although not ridiculously so, and the conclusion often leaves you with that slight sense of disquiet about what humans are capable of doing to other humans.
If you enjoy well crafted crime novels I would thoroughly recommend the series. There was also a film version of his first novel (well the first one to be published in English) that did the rounds at a few arthouse cinemas a year or so back (called Jar City) although as Cambridge was the nearest venue to Norwich that was showing the film, I had to resort to buying it on DVD from an Icelandic on-line store (Don't you just love the Internet!!)
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A fantastic Crime Writer
