The Shadow District

<p><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018</b><br><b><br>The first instalment in the thrilling new crime series from worldwide bestseller Arnaldur Indridason</b><br><b><br>THE PAST</b><br><br>In wartime Reykjav&#237;k a young woman is found strangled in a dangerous area known as &#145;the shadow district&#146;. An Icelandic detective and a member of the American military police are on the trail of a brutal killer.<br><br><b>THE PRESENT</b><br><br>An elderly man is discovered dead on his bed smothered with his own pillow. Konr&#225;d a retired detective finds old newspaper cuttings in the man&#146;s home reporting the shadow district murder. It&#146;s a crime Konr&#225;d remembers having grown up in the same neighbourhood.<br><br><b> A MISSING LINK</b><br><br> Why after all this time would an old crime resurface? How are these events connected across the decades? And will Konr&#225;d&#146;s link to the past help him solve the case and finally lay the ghosts of wartime Reykjav&#237;k to rest?<br><br> &#145;Arnaldur Indridason introduces a new hero&#133; Beautifully told&#146;<br> <i>The Times</i><br><br>&#145;An international literary phenomenon&#146;<br> Harlan Coben</p>