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La rivière noire d'Arnaldur Indridason

La rivière noire d’Arnaldur Indridason – Editions Points La rivière noire d’Arnaldur Indridason, présentation Sortir le soir en veillant à rester anonyme. Il cherche des jeunes femmes trentenaires, un peu éméchées. Il souffre de TOCS. Il rencontre une femme dans un bar, la drogue et la ramène chez lui. Un homme est retrouvé assassiné chez lui. Avis La rivière noire d’Arnaldur…

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Lecturas de junio. Segunda semana

El hangar 885 / Arnaldur Indridason. Editorial RBA, 2024 En 1979 Erlendur, ya divorciado, lleva dos años trabajando como detective para Marion Briem. Ambos investigan el hallazgo del cuerpo de un hombre que fue encontrado en una laguna. Al parecer, la víctima cayó desde una gran altura y, en un primer momento, la policía baraja la posibilidad de que haya sido arrojado desde un avión, pues el…

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10 FASCINATING ICELANDIC NOVELS

1.I remember you-yrsa sigurðardóttir

“In this terrifying tale, three friends set to work renovating a rundown house in a remote, totally isolated location. But they soon realize they are not as alone as they thought. Something wants them to leave. Meanwhile, in a nearby town, a young doctor investigating the suicide of an elderly woman discovers that she was obsessed with his vanished son.”(goodreads)

2.Miss Iceland -Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

“Iceland in the 1960s. Hekla is a budding female novelist who was born in the remote district of Dalir. After packing her few belongings, including James Joyces's Ulysses and a Remington typewriter, she heads for Reykjavik with a manuscript buried in her bags. There, she intends to become a writer. Sharing an apartment with her childhood and queer friend Jón John, Hekla comes to learn that she will have to stand alone in a small male dominated community that would rather see her win a pageant than be a professional artist. As the two friends find themselves increasingly on the outside, their bond shapes and strengthens them artistically in the most moving of ways.”(goodreads)

3.A Land of Impossible Sorrow: An Icelandic Revenge Thriller-Gígur Hrafnsson

“Iceland, a small village in the remote West Fjords. Daniel Fearsson was never a good man. After an angry outburst he is left with no choice but to leave his home and country. He takes his three young daughters and flees to America for a chance to start afresh.

It takes fifteen years for his old life to catch up to him, and when it does it ends in bloodshed and the kidnapping of one of his daughters. The two surviving sisters have only one option, they have to cross treacherous country and get their sister back no matter the cost. Alone in the world, all they have is each other and the desire for revenge.”(Amazon)

4.Independent people-Halldor Laxness

“Set in the early twentieth century, Independent People recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. If Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic.”(Amazon)

5.Strange Shores: An Inspector Erlendur Novel-Arnaldur Indridason

“Erlendur has captured the imaginations of suspense fiction readers all over the globe. Published now in 26 countries around the world, Inspector Erlendur joins Maigret, Morse, Wallander, and a handful of other world-famous policemen who provide must-reading for suspense fans everywhere.

In this latest puzzle Inspector Erlendur learns of the baffling story of Matthildur, a local woman who went missing years earlier on the night of a violent storm. A frequent visitor to his birthplace, Erlendur has spent his whole life searching for his brother Beggi who was lost in a snowstorm when they were both children. As he begins to ask questions about the fateful evening when Matthildur disappeared, Erlendur begins to suspect what may have also befallen his long-lost brother.” (Amazon)

6.God's hammer-Eric Schumacher

“It is 935 A.D. and the North is in turmoil. King Harald Fairhair has died, leaving the High Seat of the realm to his murderous son, Erik Bloodaxe. To solidify his claim, Erik ruthlessly disposes of all claimants to his throne, save one: his youngest brother Hakon.

Erik's surviving enemies send a ship to Wessex, where the Christian King Athelstan is raising Hakon. Unable to avoid his fate, he returns to the Viking North to face his brother and claim his birthright, only to discover that victory will demand sacrifices beyond his wildest nightmares.” (Amazon)

7.Under the glacier-Halldor Laxness

“At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Snæfells Glacier, who, among other things, appears to have given up burying the dead. But once he arrives, the emissary finds that this dereliction counts only as a mild eccentricity in a community that regards itself as the center of the world and where Creation itself is a work in progress.

What is the emissary to make, for example, of the boarded-up church? What about the mysterious building that has sprung up alongside it? Or the fact that Pastor Primus spends most of his time shoeing horses? Or that his wife, Ua, is rumored never to have bathed, eaten, or slept?”(Amazon)

8.Into Oblivion: An Icelandic Thriller- Arnaldur Indridason

“It's 1979. A woman swims in a remote, milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises from the water and as it clears, a body is revealed in the ghostly light. Miles away, a vast aircraft hangar rises behind the perimeter fence of the US military base. A sickening thud is heard as a man's body falls from a high platform.

Many years before, a schoolgirl went missing. The world has forgotten her. But Erlendur has not. Erlendur is a newly promoted detective. He is only starting out, but he is already deeply involved in his work.”(Amazon)

9.double blind: The Icelandic Manuscript Murders-Sara Winokur

“A young boy disappears in the chill of North Iceland. Twenty years later, a mysterious poem lands on the desk of his twin sister Brynja, a forensic geneticist, and rekindles her hopes that her brother might be alive. As Brynja unravels the clues, more poems arrive, each bearing dire consequences for those who receive them: the guard of the medieval manuscript of Icelandic sagas that possibly has the answer to her burning question, the prime minister’s secretary, the local pastor.

Is the poet out to stop Brynja from finding her brother and shut down her access to the DNA database? Or is the verse maker simply a psychopath copycat killer?”(Amazon)

10.The Language of Cherries-Jen Marie Hawkins

“When Evie Perez is cut off from everything she loves and forced to move to Iceland for the summer, she takes her canvas and paintbrushes into the picturesque cherry orchard behind her guesthouse. She stains her lips with stolen cherries in the midnight sun and paints a boy she’s never met. Oskar is startled to discover Evie in his family’s orchard, and even more surprised to see himself on her canvas. Too ashamed to reveal his stutter, he remains quiet as Evie returns day after day to paint, spilling confessions she wouldn’t even tell her priest.When the magic intensifies and their connection deepens, everything they share is at stake, forcing Oskar to decide how long to maintain his silence”

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So this is the second book I have read of Arnaldur Indridasson. I definitely liked this one. I’m not reading these books in the same chronological order that were released in. So Strange Shores is a later book, but it is my second book featuring Erlendur. This book sort of offers some background in to Erlendur’s childhood. The one thing that I particularly appreciated was how the landscape figures greatly in this book. I’m really interested in knowing more about the Icelandic fjords now. The landscape is a constant presence. I don’t want to resort to a cliche and say that it is a character in the book, but it is a broody thing lurking in the background all the time. And we can see that Erlendur has carried one particular aspect of the landscape with him all along. The blinding whiteness of the snow and blizzard. The characters, the chief players anyway, have some relationship or the other with the landscape. It’s something that is very much in their lives. We have also the antroposcene in the book with the old landscape now being dotted with smelters and dams. Things are changing and so is the landscape. It’s definitely a fascinating read. Do pick it up if you can.Also you can read my take on Indridasson’s The Draning Lake here.

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The Shadow Murders by Jussi Adler Olsen

The Shadow Murders Department Q #9

By Jussi Adler Olsen

Translated by William Frost

Quercus Books/Dutton Group

Publication Date: 27 September 2022

Jussi Adler Olsen is inarguably Denmark’s most well recognised crime fiction writer with worldwide sales in excess of 30 million to date. The bulk of his novels so far have been set within the Department Q series which commenced with The Keeper Of Lost Causes (AKA Mercy), published in the English language in 2011.

One of the key mainstays of contemporary Scandinavian noir, as essential a cornerstone to the genre as Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander, Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole and Arnaldur Indridason’s Erlendur, Jussi Adler Olsen’s Department Q sees one of Denmark's best homicide detectives Carl Mørck investigate a series of cold cases with assistance from his team comprising of Assad, Rose and Gordon.

This series of book are dark and at times brutal, rich with social commentary, yet provide lighter elements such as strong team camaraderie and black humour. So far six of the series have been as feature length films in Danish with an intention for the full series to be adapted.

It was always Adler Olsen’s intention to complete 10 volumes in the Department Q series as per the tradition of the Martin Book novels by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. With The Shadow Murders the author appears on track to complete the series as planned in the next novel.

Simultaneous to the main crime story in each novel, the series has slowly unravelled the mystery of the Amager nail gun murders. Back in 2007 a surprise ambush led to the death of a police detective called Anker and the paralysing of another, Hardy. While he was only grazed by a bullet, the events of that day have cast a heavy shadow over Carl Mørck’s career. His actions on the day have left suspicions in the senior management which then saw Mørck sidelined to cold cases that no one could solve, while his own guilt at emerging virtually unscathed has also led to his subsequent care of Hardy. Which running as an undercurrent in the eight prior novels, a discovery during The Shadow Murders places not only his team’s investigation in jeopardy but also offers doubts over Mørck’s own future.

Following a pair of intriguing opening chapters set in the past, Carl Mørck is visited by Chief of Homecide Marcus Jacobsen. The death of a lady in her sixties by suicide has reminded Jacobsen of a case thirty years earlier in his career when a young baby boy was killed. At the time his mother was approaching a car repair shop which suddenly exploded. The blast killed the merchanics at work in addition to the young child. At the time the police were unable to establish a reason for the explosion nor a possible motive for a crime.

The one perplexing aspect to the case was a pile of table salt found close to the scene of the blast. This jigs something in Mørck’s memory and he asks Rose to check unsolved deaths and she unearths the death of a right wing politician who was believed to have comitted suicide in his car garage where salt was also found present. The team are then prompted to look for unsolved or unexplained deaths were salt was left on the scene, gradually uncovering a pattern over several decades.

As Carl and team start to interview those related to these cases, their questioning leads to a confrontation they are unaware of. At this point it is revealed to the reader who the main villan of the story is with some understanding of their motives.

With a long running series like Department Q there is a degree of formalisation. The historic cases tend to lead to the discovery of a current case as the police procedural evolves into a race against time thriller with lives at risk, including a member of the team. There is a degree of similarity with the imprisonment of Merete Lynggaard in the very first novel of the series. Other aspects familiar to the reader include Mørck’s continued attempts to smoke cigarettes in his office – which has become more troublesome now that the department has been located alongside the other investigating teams in the new police HQ in Copenhagen (also mentioned in Katrine Engberg’s The Harbour). Assad’s camel sayings and gramatical errors are still present and the continued interaction between the team also provides light spots contrasting with some of the more gruesome deaths in the storyline. It is to be expected that these elements would apply through this novel as they did through the earlier books in the series. The relocation of the department as well as restrictions in place during the Coronavirus epidemic do alter the team dynamic slightly.

Overall this is another cleverly crafted novel which has been well researched by the author, who consults members of the police force to ensure procedural accuracy. While I probably would not recommend The Shadow Murders as a starting place to read Jussi Adler Olsen: The Keeper Of Lost Causes (AKA Mercy) and The Absent One (AKA Disgrace) are hard to beat. Yet for anyone who has read at least a few of the novels, this book will definitely satisfy. Unlike the usual clear resolutions of earlier novels, The Shadow Murders ends on a knife-edge. With approximately 9 months delay between the Danish language edition of this book and the English language version, eyes will soon begin to turn to see when the final volume of Department Q will appear. Be sure to be caught up before then.

Many thanks to The Dutton Group and Quercus Books for approving me to read an ARC on NetGallery. I chose to read the copy provided by The Dutton Group as the Quercus version had ‘Not For Distribution’ written across each page.

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Le mur des silences  Arnaldur Indridason abandonne définitivement son flic de polar, Erlendur Sveinsson, qui a fait sa renommée, pour son nouvel enquêteur Konrad, fameux policier au flair incontestable, têtu et opiniâtre déjà rencontré dans des polars précédents, sans qu’il soit nécessaire de les avoir lus pour découvrir Le mur des silences. Son nouveau flic à la retraite est pétri de culpabilité…

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20 questions tag

I was tagged by @feminist-study to answer some questions about myself (it was a while ago, sorry I took so long!!) so here we go:

name: I’d rather not say

nickname: My current online alias is Polyhymnia, but people don’t really give me nicknames

zodiac sign: leo

height: 5′5

orientation: heterosexual

nationality: french canadian (I prefer “québécoise”)

fav fruit: kiwis. kiwis are life!

fav season: I don’t really have one. I like every season when it comes, and I’m glad to see it go when it ends

fav scent: my sense of smell is basically non existent. tomato sauce?

fav colour: teal

fav animal: dogs and birds? 

coffee, tea, hot chocolate: all of the above

avg. hours of sleep: i can’t function without 8 or 9. i go to bed early!

fav fictional characters: Erlendur Sveinsson (from Arnaldur Indridason’s mystery novels), Cthulhu, Alicia Donadio (from Justin Cronin’s The Passage series), Hannibal Lecter & Charlie Brown

# of blankets you sleep with:  summer: 2 / winter: as many I can get

blog created: may 2015

favourite book: I don’t have one

favourite flowers: all flowers are my favorites

dream trip: I went to Sweden a couple of months ago and it was a dream come true. I’d like to go back and stay even longer. As for new places: Iceland

dogs or cats: dogs of course.

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Partageons mon rendez-vous lectures #27-2024 & critiques

Voici mes critiques littéraires sur Livres à profusion. Le dernier Linley et Havers, dédicacé il y a un an, Une chose à cacher d’Elizabeth George Une chose à cacher d’Elizabeth George – Editions Presses de la Cité Surface d’Olivier Norek Surface d’Olivier Norek – Editions Michel Lafon Hypothermie d’Arnaldur Indridason Hypothermie d’Arnaldur Indridason – Editions Points En lecture, Apnée noire de…

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Lecturas de enero. Quinta semana

Noches de Reikiavik / Arnaldur Indridason. Editorial RBA, 2023 En una antigua zona de marismas de la capital islandesa, aparece flotando en un estanque el cadáver de un vagabundo. Como a casi nadie le importa su muerte, la policía archiva rápidamente el caso. Un problema menos. Sin embargo, un joven agente llamado Erlendur, que conocía al mendigo de sus rondas por el corazón de la ciudad,…

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20 Q tag

1. Name: Gwenaëlle 

2. Nickname: Gwen, Gwenou and other variants. 

3. Zodiac sign: Scorpio

4. Height: 160 cm (askip)

5. Sexual orientation: Heterosexual but shit happens

6. Nationality: French

7. Favorite fruits: Blueberries, all berries, apples and bananas

8. Favorite flowers: White roses and “pensées” (idk the english name)

9. Favorite scents: Ancient books, garden after the rain, my parent’s scarves, fresh pastries

10. Favorite colours: Orange and mint green

11. Favorite season: Winter

12. Favorite books: Harry Potter, Brave New World, World War Z and Arnaldur Indridason’s books on Erlendur Sveinsson

13. Favourite animals: Owls, penguins and hamsters, idk. 

14. Favourite subjects: Languages, chemistry, anatomy, children’s psychology and didactics

15. Coffee, tea or hot cocoa: Hot cocoa

16. Average hours of sleep: Between 6 and 8.

17. Favourite fictional character: Ronald Weasley [Harry Potter] ; Barry Allen [ The Flash] ; Cisco Ramon [The Flash] ; Roy Mustang [FMA] ; Erlendur Sveinsson ; Dewei Tao [@petitcafepastel ;D]

18. Number of blankets you sleep with: One

19. Dream trip: Japan sounds nice. I’d love a road trip around Europe too. 

20. Blog created: July 30, 2017, duh.

21. And, why not, hogwarts house: Gryffindor

And I tag your mom.

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I think the Erlendur books are underrated.  The Draining Lake is my favourite.  I need to get on and read Oblivion and Strange Shores, and it’s to my eternal frustration that the publishers haven’t bothered translating Sons of Dust and Silent Kill yet.  Dear publishers:

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The Draining Lake: Arnaldur Indridason

So recently I’ve been reading crime fiction. I started with Seicho Matsumoto and his book “Inspector Imanishi Investigates” And now, I’ve come to Nordic Noir. I step in to Nordic Noir with Arnaldur Indridason’s “The Draining Lake”. It was a great read, not in the very fast pace thriller kind of way, but in a steady advancement. The book is like a puzzle that comes together slowly, and the pieces take time to arrive. One thing that I appreciate about the book is that the clues or the pieces fall into place as a result of work. It’s not because the detective has a sixth sense that a clue was going to be there. Of course the lead detective, Erlendur, feels that something doesn’t fit, a gut feeling that drives him to investigate this particular case, but this is not the same as finding clues as a result of luck or hunches. The prose is simple, not overly wrought; it is very readable. The cast of characters are not just detectives, you get to see a little bit of them from their non-police lives too. These are not very one dimensional characters. I’ve been a little tired of the detective as the loner trope, but even though Erlendur is a loner, the trope like elements were not too pronounced. I have in mind the character of inspector Imanishi, who is a family man and who is skilled at investigations. The other thing about The Draining Lake is that it’s a broody book. Perhaps it has something to do with the country it is set in. When I was reading it, it was as thought there a some dark presence lurking behind, in the book, though I cannot really articulate what this presence was. I want to say the atmosphere, the Icelandic landscape that Indridason has put together, but I could be wrong. I definitely recommend this one. 

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Descarga La mujer de verde (Arnaldur Indridason)

5 / 5 ( 1 voto ) Unos obreros de la construcción descubren un esqueleto humano mientras trabajan en una urbanización de Reykiavik. Años antes, esa parte de la ciudad era todo colinas, y Erlendur y su equipo esperan que se trate de un caso típico de desaparición; quizá alguien una vez se perdió en […]

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La voix  /  Arnaldur Indridason

★★★☆☆

Il faut le savoir, Père-Noël c’est un métier à risque. D’aucuns se souviennent encore de Félix, pour ne citer que lui, infortunée victime d’un lâcher de fer à repasser dans la face un radieux soir de décembre 1979 (Joyeux Noël Félixch).

Chez Indridason ça rigole encore moins, cette nuit Papa Noël est monté au ciel. Son cadavre est découvert qui plus outre en fâcheuse posture, pantalon sur les chevilles, préservatif encore sur la bête. « Mais avant de partir, il faudra bien te couvrir… » quand un chant de Noël prend d’un coup tout son sens.

Sonnez hautbois résonnez musettes, il est temps pour Erlendur de débouler aux fins d’enquête sur cet assassinat d’un goût hasardeux. Enquête à effet miroir pour monsieur le commissaire, puisque la magie de Noël, c’est bien connu, y a pas mieux pour convoquer dans l’allégresse et la bonne humeur souvenirs fâcheux, traumatismes ancestraux voire menus conflits familiaux.

Allons-y gaiement par conséquent, et en toute confiance, vérifier si notre enquêteur aura finalement la peau des ceusses qui ont eu la peau de Papa Noël. Car qu’on y croie ou pas, on ne touche pas au mythe, non mais des fois.

Nov 2019

https://www.babelio.com/livres/Indriason-La-Voix/5148/critiques/2070696

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Arnaldur Indriðason - Verborgen im Gletscher

Nicht nur Gletscher, sondern auch Menschen können Geheimnisse über sehr lange Zeit bewahren. Doch irgendwann kommt der Tag der Wahrheit. Als eine deutsche Touristengruppe einen Toten auf dem Langjökull-Gletscher findet, muss Kommissar Konráð aus dem Ruhestand zurückkehren, denn dieser Fall aus den 1980ern ist bis heute nicht gelöst. Nach so vielen Jahren scheint es keine Hoffnung auf neue Erkenntnisse zu geben, doch plötzlich sprechen die Menschen. Einige wollen sich kurz vor dem Tod das Herz erleichtern, andere denken es ist nun an der Zeit, ihr Wissen zu teilen und plötzlich erscheint der Fall in einem ganz anderen Licht.

 Arnaldur Indriðason ist mir als erstes mit seinen Erlendur Romanen begegnet, die später um Bände mit dem jungen Ermittler ergänzt wurden. Auch seine Reihe um Flovent und Thorson, die während der Kriegszeit und Besatzung Islands spielen, konnten mich überzeugen. Nun also Konráð, der in „Verborgen im Gletscher“ sein Debut gibt. Ein ungewöhnlicher Charakter für einen Mordermittler, zum einen, da er schon längst im Ruhestand ist und daher kein offizielles Mandat hat, zum anderen weil er sich als Ein-Mann-Team ganz auf seine Menschenkenntnis verlassen muss, um seinen Fall zu lösen.

 Leser, die an nervenzerreißenden Krimis mit grausamen Szenen Spaß haben, werden mit diesem Krimi vermutlich eher hadern. „Verborgen im Gletscher“ geht in eher gemäßigtem Tempo voran, was ganz hervorragend zum Protagonisten passt, der keinerlei Zeit- oder Öffentlichkeitsdruck unterliegt und daher auch nicht in Hektik und wilde Agitation verfällt. Die Weisheit des Alters hält ihn auch davon ab, gleich auf neue Ansätze zu springen. Die Figur trägt die Handlung ganz maßgeblich und ist damit auch der entscheidende Faktor in der Frage, ob man mit der Geschichte etwas anfangen kann. Mir persönlich hätte es bisweilen gerne etwas schneller gehen können, so mancher Dialog war absolut realistisch dargestellt, forderte dadurch aber auch die Geduld des Lesers heraus. Daneben muss Konráð auch mit seinen Dämonen, vorrangig seiner verstorbenen Frau, kämpfen, die ihn nicht loslässt und immer wieder das Denken bestimmt.

 Der Kriminalfall selbst ist wieder einmal und erwartungsgemäß komplex und lange Zeit nicht durchschaubar. So unberechenbar die Menschen agieren, so unvorhersehbar entwickelt sich die Ermittlung, die jedoch zu einem sauberen und überzeugenden Ende gebracht wird.

 Indriðason konnte schon immer mit starken Figuren punkten, sein aktueller Protagonist hat hier einiges zu bieten, was jedoch leider etwas zu Lasten der Spannung geht. Daher ein Krimi, der eher auf anderen Ebenen punkten kann.

https://missmesmerized.wordpress.com/2019/11/12/arnaldur-indridason-verborgen-im-gletscher/