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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Strange Shores (Inspector Erlendur #9) by Arnaldur Indridason. Another book in the fine Icelandic series of crime novels featuring Inspector Erlendur. Following close after the events of the last novel which had Erlendur having thoughts about his childhood on the rugged lands of the eastern fjords, and the loss of his younger brother during a miserable blizzard, he decides to head out from his home in Reykjavik and try to discover what had happened. That was almost 40 years age and there is little hope of discovering anything new, but the search might soothe the ache he has felt for a long time. While rambling the hills where his brother disappeared so long ago he meets a hunter which strikes up another thought process. In a terrible storm a troop of British soldiers got lost, all but one finally found. But during that same storm a young woman named Matthildur was also lost, her body never recovered. Now his personal search has this other mystery added to it. Was she lost in the storm or did she fall afoul of her husband’s wrath and the storm used as cover for a greater crime? Erlendur likes to talk with people and when he smells a story he is compelled to follow it to the end, no matter what that end may mean to the people involved. There are still relatives of the woman about the fjords. They may be reluctant to talk about events so long in the past, but they do talk. It is a curious path the Inspector must follow to reveal the truth, and along the way he finds other answers to his own questions. This is a busman’s holiday story, slow paced as there is no crime that is being followed up on, but relentless in it’s pacing. And there is the scenery of the rugged east Icelandic coast that is a fitting setting for the hard lives of the people in this tale. A nice addition to this very popular crime series.
If I could read an Arnaldur Indridason crime novel every day for the rest of my life I would be a very happy man. I don't know of anyone writing better mysteries than he. He is a master. Premi e riconoscimenti
"[B]egins when a young woman disappears from the frozen fjords of Iceland. In her wake, this woman has left a tempest of lies, betrayal and revenge. Decades later, somewhere in the same wilderness, Detective Erlendur is on the hunt. He is looking for the missing woman but also for his long-lost brother, whose disappearance in a snowstorm when they were children has coloured his entire life. Slowly, the past begins to surrender its secrets. But as Erlendur uncovers a story about the limits of human endurance, he realizes that many people would prefer their crimes to stay buried" -- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)839.6935Literature German literature and literatures of related languages Other Germanic literatures Old Norse, Old Icelandic, Icelandic, Faroese literatures Modern West Scandinavian; Modern Icelandic Modern Icelandic fiction 21st CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Perhaps seeing parallels with his own story, Erlendur seeks out people who knew Matthildur, and begins to suspect that there might have been more to her disappearance than simply getting lost in the snow. As he digs deeper he uncovers some long-suppressed emotions about the case, while his own conflicting emotions about his brother's death whirl inside of him.
As always, Indridason gives us a complex set of characters, led by the taciturn and gloomy Erlendur. This book expands on the story of Erlendur's childhood loss that had only been touched on in previous books. The author excels at placing us in the bitter and forbidding landscape of the Icelandic fjord country, and gives us a whole new meaning to the term cold case. ( )