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Hypothermia

Reykjavik Murder Mysteries (Book 6)

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One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam at her holiday cottage. At first sight, it appears like a straightforward case of suicide; María had never recovered from the death of her mother two years previously and she had a history of depression. But then the friend who found her body approaches Detective Erlendur with a tape of a séance that María attended before her death and his curiosity is aroused.

Driven by a need to find answers, Erlendur begins an unofficial investigation into María's death. But he is also haunted by another unsolved mystery - the disappearance of two young people thirty years ago - and by his own quest to find the body of his brother, who died in a blizzard when he was a boy. Hypothermia is Indridason's most compelling novel yet.

Critics Review

one of the most haunting crime novels you can expect to read: unsentimental, yet informed throughout by Indridason’s extraordinary empathy with human suffering
The Times
An intelligent, gripping and moody tale with superior characterisation
The Times
The narrative grips, the writing, excellently translated by Cribb, is resonant and lyrical, and the atmosphere is chillingly creepy
Guardian
Hypothermia is one of the most haunting crime novels I've read in a long time, unsentimental yet informed by the author's extraordinary empathy with human suffering
Sunday Times
An insightful human story, beautifully written and translated
Literary Review
Descriptions of Iceland's stunning crystalline landscape are lyrical and the overall storyline thoughtful and original
Daily Mail
Indridason's best novel so far
Books Quarterly
Indridason has a remarkable understanding of grief and its persistence... Indridason combines psychological acuteness with great stylistic economy and a pleasing pace
Independent
A personal odyssey, suffused with a melancholy that, like the icy chill, seeps into the bones
Herald
This Icelandic novelist keeps on getting better
Sunday Times
Author Arnaldur Indridason
Narrator Saul Reichlin
Series Reykjavik Murder Mysteries
Duration 8 hours and 49 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781448191154
Format Audiobook
Publisher Random House
Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE

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