'Voices' is a tense, atmospheric and disturbing novel from one of Europe's greatest crime writers. About the Author, Arnaldur Indridason worked for many years as a journalist and critic before he began writing novels. As Christmas Day approaches Erlendur must delve deeply into the past to find the man's killer.

The Swedish translation of the novel ( nglarsten) won Sweden's Martin Beck Award for the best crime novel in translation. It was first published in English in August 2006. But most shocking is the childhood secret of the dead man who, many years before, was the most famous child singer in the country: it turns out to be a brush with stardom which would ultimately cost him everything. Voices ( Icelandic: Rddin) is a 2006 translation of a 2003 crime novel by Icelandic author Arnaldur Indriason, in his Detective Erlendur series. As Erlendur quietly surveys the cast of grotesques who populate the hotel, the web of malice, greed and corruption that lies beneath its surface reveals itself. A glum detective taking up residence in his hotel and an intrusive murder investigation are not what he needs.

George Guidall, winner of more than eighty AudioFile Earphones Awards, has won. The manager tries to keep the murder under wraps. The Draining Lake won the 2009 Barry Award for Best Novel. It is only a few days before Christmas and he was preparing to appear as Santa Claus at a children's party. The Christmas rush is under way in a big Reykjavik hotel when the police are called to the. At a grand Reykjavik hotel the doorman has been repeatedly stabbed in the dingy basement room he called home. The third novel in the award-winning Reykjavik Murder Mysteries. Detective Erlendur encounters memories of his troubled past in this gripping and award-winning continuation of the 'Reykjavik Murder Mysteries'. In Voices, first published in 2002 and newly translated into English, they must unravel the death of a hotel doorman in the days leading up to Christmas.

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