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Cargando... Strange Shores: Murder in Reykjavik (2010 original; edición 2013)por Arnaldur Indridason (Autor)
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este 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.
En la zona de los fiordos orientales, todos conocen la historia de la salvaje tempestad que en enero de 1942 tuvo trágicas consecuencias para un grupo de soldados británicos. También aquel día, la joven Matthildur salió de casa y nadie la volvió a ver. Su cadáver jamás apareció tras el temporal. Aunque eso sucedió hace décadas, el inspector Erlendur decide investigar por su cuenta y riesgo qué le pasó a Matthildur y, además, enfrentarse a su mayor trauma: la desaparición de su hermano durante otra tormenta. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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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. ( )