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Tra gli effetti del riscaldamento globale c’è anche lo scioglimento dei ghiacciai, come spiega una guida islandese a un gruppo di turisti tedeschi durante un’escursione sul gigantesco Langjökull. Tra la sorpresa e l’orrore, i turisti vedono emergere un corpo congelato e perfettamente conservato, che ben presto si scopre essere quello di un imprenditore scomparso misteriosamente trent’anni prima. Il medico legale che procede all’identificazione si ricorda ancora del caso, sul quale aveva investigato un poliziotto suo amico, Konrað, ora in pensione. All’epoca i sospetti erano ricaduti sul socio in affari dell’imprenditore, che però in mancanza di cadavere era stato rilasciato. Ora questo ritrovamento rimette tutto in discussione e Konrað, dopo un iniziale tentennamento, decide di riprendere il filo delle indagini. Il sospettato di un tempo potrebbe essere definitivamente inchiodato, ma l’intuito di Konrað punta in un’altra direzione e una nuova testimonianza sembra aprire scenari inattesi... Un romanzo sfaccettato e pieno di sorprese inaugura una nuova serie del re indiscusso del giallo islandese.
- ISBN: 8823522919
- Casa Editrice: Guanda
- Pagine: 320
- Data di uscita: 20-06-2019
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Thanks to NetGalley, St. Martin's Press, and Minotaur Books for the opportunity to read this compelling ARC. I had previously enjoyed a couple of this author's books and am a big fan of Nordic Noir, especially those with an Icelandic setting. I found the atmosphere to be cold and dark, like the pers Leggi tutto
3.5 stars, rounded down There’s something about Icelandic noir thrillers that I really enjoy. In addition to the dark, barren landscapes and the cold biting air, the people seem to have a certain reserve to them as well. The Darkness Knows is the first in a new series by Arnaldur Indridason. Konrad i Leggi tutto
This is the first book I have read by Arnaldur Indriðason, and I look forward to reading more of his works. I picked this one up because I saw that Indriðason was considered the "undisputed King of the Icelandic thriller." A well-preserved body is found on a glacier. It turns out to be a man who disa Leggi tutto
The Darkness Knows by Arnaldur Indriðason gives new meaning to the term “cold case” when the body of a long-missing man is found on the Langjökull glacier in western Iceland. This solves one piece of a puzzle of a man who went missing 30 years earlier, but it raises many other questions. Who killed Leggi tutto
Konrad, a retired policeman in Iceland, is shocked when a missing person from one of his old cases turns up frozen in a glacier. Even though it is not his case anymore, he decides to talk to people involved at the time. Could there be a connection with a 30 year old hit and run? Was the man who was
Times had changed, Konráð thought, as he took the main road out of town across the seemingly endless expanse of moss-covered lava fields, passing the familiar landmarks: the green-roofed building of the Little Café, standing alone among the wastes, and the distinctive black-cinder slopes of Mount Ví Leggi tutto
Some of the reviews I read put me off a bit; they made the book seem a bit darker than I thought it was and the character not very likable in this Nordic Noir. I didn’t find the main character, Konrád that negative or disagreeable. Yes, he has had a hard life, but despite an abusive childhood, physi Leggi tutto
“The Darkness Knows” is the story of a cold murder case, really old and really cold, in fact, frozen in a glacier. A tour guide is escorting a group on an Iceland glacier tour. People come to Iceland for the landscape, the pure air and the peace and quiet, not for frozen corpses on glaciers. The bod Leggi tutto
As always an impressive contribution to the Nordic Noir arc by Indridason! Climate change has revealed a body in a glacier. A case that goes back 30 years or so and that has haunted retired detective Konrad. Called back to investigate the case he and we, start slowly but as the trajectory gains moment Leggi tutto
Thoughts soon.
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