The Shadow District

<p><strong>The first instalment in the thrilling new crime series from worldwide bestseller Arnaldur Indridason</strong><br /><strong><br />THE PAST</strong><br /><br />In wartime Reykjav&iacute;k, a young woman is found strangled in a dangerous area known as 'the shadow district'. An Icelandic detective and a member of the American military police are on the trail of a brutal killer.<br /><br /><strong>THE PRESENT</strong><br /><br />An elderly man is discovered dead on his bed, smothered with his own pillow. Konr&aacute;d, a retired detective, finds old newspaper cuttings in the man's home reporting the shadow district murder. It's a crime Konr&aacute;d remembers, having grown up in the same neighbourhood.<br /><br /><strong> A MISSING LINK</strong><br /><br /> Why, after all this time, would an old crime resurface? How are these events connected across the decades? And will Konr&aacute;d's link to the past help him solve the case and finally lay the ghosts of wartime Reykjav&iacute;k to rest?</p>