The Shadow District
A Thriller
Picador · Print & ebook · August 28, 2018
A 90-year-old man is found dead in his bed, smothered with his own pillow.
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- Who it’s for
- Two investigations, separated by decades, give this compassionate crime thriller its quiet pull.
- Genres
- International Crime Fiction, Historical Mystery, Historical Thrillers
- Published
- Picador, August 28, 2018
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A 90-year-old man is found dead in his bed, smothered with his own pillow. On his desk the police find newspaper cuttings about a murder case dating from the Second World War, when a young woman was found strangled behind Reykjavík's National Theatre. Konrád, a former detective, is bored with retirement and remembers the crime. He grew up in ?the shadow district', a rough neighborhood bordered by the National Theatre. Why would someone be interested in that crime now?
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He starts his own unofficial enquiry. Alternating between Konrád's investigation and the original police inquiry, we discover that two girls had been attacked in oddly similar circumstances. Did the police arrest the wrong man? How are these cases linked across the decades? And who is the old man? A deeply compassionate story of old crimes and their consequences, The Shadow District is the first in a thrilling new series of novels by the worldwide bestselling author Arnaldur Indridason.
Past Meets Present
Two investigations, separated by decades, give this compassionate crime thriller its quiet pull.
Come here for
- A cold case that reaches across decades
- A former detective pulled back into an old inquiry
Expect
- Alternating past and present inquiries
- Old crimes with consequences that linger
Where it sits
| International Crime Fiction | 65% |
|---|---|
| Historical Mystery | 60% |
| Historical Thrillers | 21% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Police Procedurals
- Authors
- Arnaldur Indridason, Arnaldur Indriðason
- Publisher
- Picador
- Published
- August 28, 2018
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Police Procedurals