Outrage - Couverture rigide

Praise for Arnaldur Indridason:

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

Harlan Coben

'The narrative grips, the writing, excellently translated by Cribb, is resonant and Lyrical, and the atmosphere is chillingly creepy'

Guardian

'An utterly absorbing detective story. Indridason has created a character in the Morse/Rebus mould who could stand comparison with either'

Scotsman

'A personal odyssey suffused with a melancholy that, like the icy chill, seeps into the bones'

Herald

'One of the most haunting crime novels I've read in a long time, unsentimental yet informed by Indridason's extraordinary empathy with human suffering'

Sunday Times

In a flat near Reykjavík city centre, a young man lies dead in a pool of blood. There is no sign of a break-in: the only clues are a woman's purple shawl, found under the bed in the next room, and a vial of prescription drugs in the victim´s pocket.

With Detective Erlendur away in a remote part of Iceland, Detective Elínborg, who is already struggling to juggle family life and the relentless demands of her job, is assigned the case. Her investigation into the murdered man's past soon uncovers a squalid tale of double lives, drug dealers and the unsolved disappearance of a young girl many years before.

From its explosive opening, Outrage leads down a trail of hidden violence, psychological brutality and of wrongs that will never be fully righted.