![]() ![]() Collectors and what drives them seem to be significant, because they also feature. Family tragedies, pains and struggles drive the plot, as factors in both the crimes and in Erlendur’s life. In all of the books, the past holds the key to the crime under investigation – in Tainted Blood (originally published as Jar City) it is a forty-year old crime in Silence of the Grave it is a long-buried body found in a building development and in Voices, it is the past of the victim. ![]() While Iceland, and its particularities are a feature of the books, it is increasingly the character of Erlendur which they explore through the crimes he investigates. His previous books that I have read featuring his detective, Erlendur Sveinsson and his colleagues, were Tainted Blood and Silence of the Grave. This is especially true of the Scandinavians, and in this case the Icelandic writer, Arnaldur Indridason. Thanks to the efforts of translators, there is now an increasing number of works of non-English crime writers available to us. ![]()
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