One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam in her summer cottage by Lake Thingvellir. At first sight it appears to be a straightforward case of suicide; the woman, María, had never recovered from the loss of her mother two years earlier and had a history of depression. But when Karen, the friend who found her body, approaches Erlendur and gives him the tape of a séance that María had attended, his curiosity is aroused. Driven by a need to find answers that even he does not fully understand, Erlendur embarks on an unofficial investigation to find out why the woman’s life ended in such an abrupt and tragic manner. At the same time he is haunted by the unresolved cases of two young people who went missing thirty years before, and, inevitably, his discoveries raise ghosts from his own past.
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"Our love affair with Scandinavian crime continues with the latest installment of Indridason's award-winning Icelandic murder mystery series."
--Daily Express
"...Indridason combines psychological acuteness with great stylistic economy and a pleasing place." --Independant
"...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" --The Daily Mail
"an intelligent, gripping and moody tale with superior characterisation" --The Saturday Times
"Indridason's best novel so far" --Books Quarterly
"The narrative grips, the writing, excellently translated by Cribb, is resonant and Lyrical, and the atmosphere is chillingly creepy. Brrr" --Guardian
`a personal odyssey, suffused with a melancholy that, like the icy chill, seeps into the bones' --The Herald
`Hypothermia is one of the most haunting crime novels I've read in a long time' --Sunday Times
"The narrative grips, the writing is resonant and lyrical, and the atmosphere chillingly creepy. Brrr"
--The Times
--Daily Express
"...Indridason combines psychological acuteness with great stylistic economy and a pleasing place." --Independant
"...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" --The Daily Mail
"an intelligent, gripping and moody tale with superior characterisation" --The Saturday Times
"Indridason's best novel so far" --Books Quarterly
"The narrative grips, the writing, excellently translated by Cribb, is resonant and Lyrical, and the atmosphere is chillingly creepy. Brrr" --Guardian
`a personal odyssey, suffused with a melancholy that, like the icy chill, seeps into the bones' --The Herald
`Hypothermia is one of the most haunting crime novels I've read in a long time' --Sunday Times
"The narrative grips, the writing is resonant and lyrical, and the atmosphere chillingly creepy. Brrr"
--The Times
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The latest thrilling instalment in Indridason's CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning Reykjavik Murder Mystery series.
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By Mick Nagle
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Arnaldur Indridasson has for some time been among the cream of the explosion of crime and mystery writing currently emanating from the Nordic countries; A writer who eschews melodrama, keeps his cast of characters concise and tightly drawn and suffuses all of his writing with a slightly doleful understatement. His main character, Erlandur, superficially ticks all the boxes for the identikit modern fictional detective; middle-aged (check), unhappy family life (check), bit of a loner (check), dogged and brilliant (check) - in this respect for Erlandur read Wallander, Rebus, Banks etc. What differentiates Indridasson are the depth of his psychological insight and his willingness to stretch the conventional form into areas where lesser writers would not dare to go, working without the safety net of big plot, big action or supporting cast of big characters, but keeping the reader glued to the personalities involved and to the slow revealing of a complex and ultimately tragic story. This latest instalment has Erdlandur working on his own to resolve events that may or may not be crimes, but whose resolution will in any event have little direct impact on anyone alive. That resolution is as much about recovering and honouring the memory of the lost, as it is about exposing the actions of the guilty. Indridasson is by nature a sparse writer, there is little embellishment and the "octane level" is kept rather low - but his mastery of pace and narrative fluency are simply unrivalled (contrast him with the much hyped, highly enjoyable but infinitely more frenetic and long-winded Stieg Larsson). I've long felt that Indridasson is among the very best crime writers working in Europe; for me Hypothermia elevates him onto a different literary level. Highly recommended
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By Jack Russell
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I bought this book because I had loved reading the Henning Mankell series about the detective Wallander. Indridason is Icelandic and sets his novel there. It has a similar feel to Mankell and the main character is a detective Erlendar who would, I'm sure, be seen as a kindred soul by Wallander. I found Erlendar bleak to the point of desperate and his family situation dysfunctional and distressing. The pace of the novel is pleasingly slow and has a number of psychological twists. Discussions of Icelandic culture and geography are very interesting and the novel as whole was a good read. I would read other books in this series.
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
By zeev wolfe
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A young woman is found at her summer house by a lake. She has hung herself from one of the beams. There is no foul-play involved according to the coroner. But something is bothering Erlendur. Something is tickling the back of his neck. An old man comes to see Erlendur. His son disappeared thirty years ago. He comes to see Erlendur on his sons birthday. His wife has died and he is terminal. He has come to say goodbye. Erlendur decides to give the disappearance one last look.
So begins this amazing novel. The plotting is so well done that you feel that you are with Erlendur every step of the way. Sometimes you could be one or two steps ahead or behind. But he never looses the thread and keeps plugging away. There's a side story that involves his daughter, son, ex-wife, current girlfriend and his long lost brother. We learn a lot more about the 'gloomy' and taciturn detectives' life.
Arnaldur has a way of presenting information to the reader that is at times subtle and other times brutal. But nothing is ever talked about or mentioned for no reason. Every piece of information is a building block in the story or the characters. This was a well thought out story, without any extraneous plotting.
There are two more books to the series (as of 2009) that are yet to be translated. Here's hoping they are anywhere as good as this one.
Zeev Wolfe
So begins this amazing novel. The plotting is so well done that you feel that you are with Erlendur every step of the way. Sometimes you could be one or two steps ahead or behind. But he never looses the thread and keeps plugging away. There's a side story that involves his daughter, son, ex-wife, current girlfriend and his long lost brother. We learn a lot more about the 'gloomy' and taciturn detectives' life.
Arnaldur has a way of presenting information to the reader that is at times subtle and other times brutal. But nothing is ever talked about or mentioned for no reason. Every piece of information is a building block in the story or the characters. This was a well thought out story, without any extraneous plotting.
There are two more books to the series (as of 2009) that are yet to be translated. Here's hoping they are anywhere as good as this one.
Zeev Wolfe
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