Black Skies

Black Skies

Arnaldur Indridason has been crime writing's best-kept secret ... until now.
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A man is making a crude leather mask with slits for eyes and mouth, and an iron spike fixed in the middle of the forehead. It is a 'death mask', once used by Icelandic farmers to slaughter calves. He has revenge in mind.
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Meanwhile, with Detective Erlendur absent, his baseball-loving colleague Sigurdur Ã“li is in the spotlight. A school reunion has left Sigurdur Ã“li dissatisfied with life in the police force. Iceland is enjoying an economic boom and young tycoons are busy partying with the international jet set. In contrast, Sigurdur Ã“li's relationship is on the rocks and soon even his position in the CID is compromised: when he agrees to visit a couple of blackmailers as a favour to a friend he walks in just as a woman is beaten unconscious. When she dies, Sigurdur Ã“li has a murder investigation on his hands.
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The evidence leads to debt collectors, extortionists, swinging parties. But when a chance link connects these enquiries to the activities of a group of young bankers, Sigurdur Ã“li finds himself investigating the very elite he had envied. Moving from the villas of ReykjavÃk's banking elite to a sordid basement flat, Black Skies is a superb story of greed, pride and murder from one of Europe's most successful crime writers.
Country USA
Manufacturer Harvill Secker
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781846555817
ReleaseDate 2012-07-09
UnitCount 1
Format International Edition
EANs 9781846555817

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Harvill Secker
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781846555817
ReleaseDate	2012-07-09
UnitCount	1
Format	International Edition
EANs	9781846555817

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