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Arnaldur Indridason
Full Series List in Order
Detective Konrad
1 - The Darkness Knows (Aug-2021)2 - The Girl by the Bridge (May-2023)
3 - The Quiet Mother (Dec-2025)
An Inspector Erlendur Novel
1 - Jar City (Jul-2004)2 - Silence of the Grave (Jul-2005)
3 - Voices (Oct-2007)
4 - The Draining Lake (Sep-2009)
5 - Arctic Chill (May-2008)
6 - Hypothermia (Nov-2009)
7 - Outrage (Sep-2012)
8 - Black Skies (Sep-2013)
9 - Strange Shores (Sep-2014)
11 - Into Oblivion (Feb-2016)
Reykjavik Nights (Apr-2015)
Reykjavik Wartime Mystery
1 - The Shadow District (Nov-2017)2 - The Shadow Killer (May-2018)
Books in Order: 17 titles
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The Quiet Mother
- Dec-2025
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Retired detective Konrad returns to Reykjavik in The Quiet Mother by Arnaldur Indridason, "one of the most brilliant crime writers of his generation" -- The Sunday Times (UK)A woman is found murdered in her Reykjavík home, her apartment ransacked. ...
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The Girl by the Bridge
- May-2023
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18 million copies sold worldwide!An elderly couple are worried about their granddaughter. They know she's been smuggling drugs, and now she's gone missing. Looking for help, they turn to Konrad, a former policeman whose reputation precedes him.Always...
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The Darkness Knows
- Aug-2021
- / Police Procedural
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Retired detective Konrad returns to a haunting cold case in The Darkness Knows by Arnaldur Indridason. A frozen body is discovered in the icy depths of Langjökull glacier, apparently that of a businessman who disappeared thirty years before. At t...
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The Shadow Killer
- May-2018
- / Police Procedural
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Reykjavík, August 1941. When a travelling sales rep is found murdered in a Reykjavík flat, killed by a bullet from a Colt 45, the police initially suspect a member of the Allied occupation force. The British are in the process of handing over to...
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The Shadow District
- Nov-2017
- / Law Enforcement
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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 Reykjavík’s National ...
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Into Oblivion
- Feb-2016
- / Police Procedural
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Loyal readers of Arnaldur Indridason's Erlendur series will be thrilled by Into Oblivion, the mesmerizing follow-up to the gritty prequel Reykjavik Nights. Here devoted fans will get another glimpse of Erlendur in his early days as a young, budding d...
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Reykjavik Nights
- Apr-2015
- / Police Procedural
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In this stunning prequel to his critically acclaimed Inspector Erlendur series, Arnaldur Indridason gives devoted fans a glimpse of Erlendur as a young, budding detective. The beat on the streets in Reykjavik is busy: traffic accidents, theft, dom...
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Strange Shores
- Sep-2014
- / Police Procedural
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Arnaldur Indridason, whom The Sunday Times calls "one of the most brilliant crime writers of his generation," has thrilled readers around the world with his series set in Reykjavik. Now, his beloved protagonist Inspector Erlendur is back Strange Shor...
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Black Skies
- Sep-2013
- / Police Procedural
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Arnaldur Indridason, whom The Sunday Times calls "one of the most brilliant crime writers of his generation," has thrilled readers around the world with his series set in Reykjavik. In Black Skies, Indridason further cements his position as one of to...
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Operation Napoleon
- Oct-2011
- / Police Procedural
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1945 A GERMAN BOMBER CRASH-LANDS ON A GLACIER -- puzzlingly, there are both German and American officers on board. The senior German officer sets off, a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist, only to vanish into the whiteness. TODAY. THE BOMBER, LONG ...
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Hypothermia
- Nov-2009
- / Police Procedural
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Inspector Erlunder has spent his career evading the phantoms of his past, and now he finds himself twice haunted -- first, at a séance attended by the victim of a suspicious suicide, and again by the puzzle of two young people who went missing thirt...
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The Draining Lake
- Sep-2009
- / Police Procedural
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Following an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake suddenly falls, revealing a skeleton. Inspector Erlendur's investigation takes him back to the Cold War era, when bright, left-wing students in Iceland were sent to study in the "heavenly ...
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Arctic Chill
- May-2008
- / Police Procedural
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INSPECTOR ERLENDUR RETURNS IN THIS ICY, INTENSE REYKJAVIK THRILLER ON A BITING JANUARY DAY, the Reykjavik police are called to a block of apartments where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy is frozen to the ground in a ...
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Silence of the Grave
- Jul-2005
- / Police Procedural
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"Now Iceland has its own Mankell."---Holger Kreitling, Die Welt (Germany)Last year Jar City introduced international crime-writing sensation Arnaldur Indridason to rave reviews and a rousing welcome from American thriller fans. And now, Silence of th...
