Erlendur is a young officer assigned to traffic duties. He is not yet a detective. He works nights. Reykjavík’s nights are full of car crashes, robberies, fights, drinking, and sometimes an unexplained death. One night a homeless man Erlendur knows is found drowned. Then a young woman on her way home from a club vanishes and both cases go cold. But Erlendur’s instincts tell him that the fates of these two victims are worth pursuing. He is inexorably drawn into a world where everyone is either in the dark or on the run

The victim: a businessman missing for thirty years. The case: impossible to solve. Until now. A frozen body is discovered in the icy depths of Langjökull glacier, apparently that of a businessman who disappeared thirty years before. At the time, an extensive search and police investigation yielded no results-one of the missing man’s business associates was briefly held in custody, but there wasn’t enough evidence to charge him. Now the associate is arrested again and Konrád, the retired policeman who originally investigated the disappearance, is called back to reopen the case that has weighed on his mind for decades. When a woman approaches him with new information that she obtained from her deceased brother, progress can finally be made in solving this long-cold case

A 90-year-old man is found dead in his bed, smothered with his own pillow. On his desk the police find newspaper cuttings about a murder case dating from the Second World War, when a young woman was found strangled behind Reykjavík’s National Theatre. Konrád, a former detective, is bored with retirement and remembers the crime. He grew up in ‘the shadow district’, a rough neighbourhood bordered by the National Theatre and an abattoir. Why would someone be interested in that crime now? He starts his own unofficial enquiry. Alternating between Konrád’s investigation and the original police inquiry, we discover that two girls had been

Reykjavík, August 1941. When a travelling salesman is found murdered in a basement flat, killed by a bullet from a Colt .45, the police initially suspect a member of the Allied occupation force. The British are in the process of handing over to the Americans and the streets are crawling with servicemen whose relations with the local women are a major cause for concern. Flóvent, Reykjavík’s sole detective, is joined by the young military policeman Thorson. Their investigation focuses on a family of German residents, the retired doctor Rudolf Lunden and his estranged son Felix, who is on the run, suspected of being a spy. Flóvent and Thorson race to solve the case and to stay ahead of US counter-intelligence, amid rumours of a possible visit by Churchill. As evidence emerges of dubious experiments carried out on Icelandic schoolboys in the 1930s, Thorson becomes increasingly suspicious of the role played by the murdered man’s former girlfriend, Vera, and her British soldier lover

Iškviestas į „banalios islandiškos žmogžudystės“ vietą – rastas senolis pelenine suknežinta kaukole – detektyvas Erlenduras netrukus įsitikina, kad viskas yra kur kas painiau nei atrodo. Ir kaltininko nepavyks rasti kaip paprastai – tiesiog paklausinėjus kaimynų. Auka Holbergas prieš daugelį metų išprievartavo moterį, bet nuteistas nebuvo. Moteris susilaukė dukros, kuri mirė vaikystėje nuo reto smegenų auglio. Ekshumacija atskleidžia, kad mergaitė palaidota be smegenų

При изкопни работи на строителен обект е открит скелет на неизвестно лице, заровено на това място вероятно преди няколко десетилетия. Чий е скелетът? На мъж или на жена, на жертва или на убиец? Кой и кога е бил погребан? Дали става дума за обикновено убийство или за дълго отлагано възмездие? Или може би някой просто се е изгубил и е замръзнал в исландския сняг? Случаят е възложен на екип, ръководен от полицейския инспектор Ерлендур. Опирайки се на малкото улики, с които разполага, Ерлендур, заедно с колегите си Сигурдур Оли и Елинборг, се заема да издири хората, живели по тези места през Втората световна война. Полицаите попадат на не една драматична история. Любов, предателства и разбити сърца, гняв, насилие и страх, семейна лоялност и семеен срам постепенно изплуват от сенките на времето и макар миналото да тъне в гробна тишина, след упорито разследване и множество обрати истината излиза наяве

В безмерных глубинах ледника Лангйёкютль находят замороженное тело бизнесмена, бесследно исчезнувшего тридцать лет назад. Преступление тогда так и осталось нераскрытым. Полиции ничего не остается, как вновь арестовать тяжелобольного подозреваемого Хьяльталина, которого в свое время так и не удалось упрятать за решетку. Конрауд, полицейский в отставке, возобновляет собственное расследование этого дела, которое десятилетиями не давало ему покоя. Перед смертью Хьяльталин просит Конрауда найти настоящего убийцу и отомстить за все страдания, терзающие его душу. Когда ночью к Конрауду приходит пьяная женщина со странной пугающей информацией, полученной от ее трагически погибшего брата, наконец-то появляется новая зацепка, которая может привести к настоящему преступнику. Но хватит ли сил Конрауду раскрыть страшные секреты, копившиеся десятилетиями, и жестокую правду, способную разрушить множество жизней?