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Black Skies

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099563372

  • Length: 464  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 29mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 319g

  • RRP: £8.99

Black Skies

Detective Sigurdur Oli is in trouble.

After a school reunion exposes the chasm between his life and those of his much more successful contemporaries, leaving him bitter and resentful, one of his old friends asks him to pay an unofficial visit to a couple of blackmailers. He readily agrees, only to arrive to find one of the pair lying in a pool of blood. When the victim dies in hospital, Sigurdur Oli is faced with investigating a murder without revealing his own reasons for being present at the murder scene.

Moving from the villas of Reykjavík's banking elite to a sordid basement flat, Black Skies is a superb story of greed, pride and murder from one of Europe's most successful crime writers.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099563372

  • Length: 464  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 29mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 319g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • "Essential Scandi-fiction"

    Sunday Express

  • "An international literary phenomenon - and it's easy to see why. His novels are gripping, authentic, haunting and lyrical"

    HARLAN COBEN

  • "Satisfying and topical... Brilliant stuff"

    Maxine Clark, Eurocrime

  • "Black Skies is one of, if not the best, of Indridason's books"

    Michael Carlson, Crime Time

  • "Indridason is perhaps the best crime writer alive... Masterful as ever"

    Sydney Sun Herald

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About the Author

Arnaldur Indridason

Arnaldur Indridason worked for many years as a journalist and critic before he began writing novels. His books have since sold over 13 million copies worldwide. Outside Iceland, he is best known for his crime novels featuring Erlendur and Sigurdur Óli, which are consistent bestsellers across Europe. The series has won numerous awards, including the Nordic Glass Key and the CWA Gold Dagger. The Shadow District – the first book in the Reykjavík Wartime Mystery series – won the Premio RBA de Novela Negra, the world’s most lucrative crime fiction prize.

Arnaldur Indridason

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