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The Shadow District

By: Arnaldur Indridason, Victoria Cribb - translator
Narrated by: Sean Barrett
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Old crimes, new consequences.

The Past

In wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled behind the National Theatre, a rough and dangerous area of the city known as 'the shadow district'. An Icelandic detective and a member of the American military police are on the trail of a brutal killer.

The Present

A 90-year-old man is discovered dead on his bed, smothered with his own pillow. Konrad, a former detective now bored with retirement, finds newspaper cuttings in the dead man's home reporting the shadow district murder that date back to the Second World War. It's a crime that Konrad remembers, having grown up in the same neighbourhood.

A Missing Link

Why, after all this time, would an old crime resurface? Did the police arrest the wrong man? How are these cases linked across the decades? Will Konrad's link to the past help him solve the case and finally lay the ghosts of wartime Reykjavik to rest?

The Shadow District is the first in a major new series of novels from the worldwide best seller Arnaldur Inridason.

©2017 Arnaldur Indridason (P)2017 Random House Audiobooks Crime Crime Thrillers International Mystery & Crime Mystery Thriller & Suspense Thriller Fiction Suspense
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The power of this thriller comes both from its Icelandic setting and the way it moves between the war years and the present. An added melancholy comes from the way the detective team age as you listen. Iceland too changes over the course of the story. I learnt so much about Iceland past and present that I want to go there now.

Moody and surprising

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Love Sean Barrett, his voice is liquid amber, sexy and thrilling. The story really so listenable if there is such a word. I love the author. Great performances. I love this book.

Triffic and marvellous

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