
The first instalment in the thrilling new crime series from worldwide bestseller Arnaldur Indridason THE PASTIn wartime Reykjavík, a young woman is found strangled in a dangerous area known as ‘the shadow district’. An Icelandic detective & a member of the American military police are on the trail of a brutal killer.THE PRESENTAn elderly man is discovered dead on his bed, smothered with his own pillow. Konrád, a retired detective, finds old newspaper cuttings in the man’s home reporting the shadow district murder. It’s a crime Konrád remembers, having grown up in the same neighbourhood.A MISSING LINKWhy, after all this time, would an old crime resurface? How are these events connected across the decades? & will Konrád’s link to the past help him solve the case & finally lay the ghosts of wartime Reykjavík to rest?‘ Arnaldur Indridason introduces a new hero… Beautifully told’ The Times‘ An international literary phenomenon’ Harlan Coben