The child, Audur, died of an unusual brain tumor, and her devastated mother, Kolbrun, committed suicide three years later. Erlendur, however, discovers the photograph of the headstone of a four-year-old child, who died in 1968, hidden beneath a drawer in Holberg’s apartment. Holberg, a truck driver, appears to have been without family, and there are few clues regarding his death. Murders are rare in Iceland, and are always attended by enormous publicity. Called to investigate the death of a sixty-nine-year-old man named Holberg, who has been murdered with a crystal ashtray, he has few clues, except for the unusual message left on the body which says, “I am him.” Erlendur, fiftyish and divorced for twenty years, with almost no contact with his ex-wife, tries to maintain contact with his children, his daughter Eva Lind, an actress and active drug addict, and his son Sindri Snaer, who has recently been released from drug rehab for the third time.
Since then, five more novels in the series have been released, all to enormous acclaim. Icelandic author Arnald ur Indridason begins his mystery series starring Detective Inspector Erlendur (the Icelandic people do not usually use “last names”) of the Reykjavik Police in this dark and engrossing novel, first translated into English in 2004. Stories about me and you…you can call it up whenever you want. Family stories and stories of individuals. “Tragedies, sorrows and death, all carefully classified in computers. Note: Indridason was WINNER of the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel in 20, and WINNER of the Gold Dagger Award from the Crime Writers’ Association in 2005.
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