| View Larger Image | Hypothermia | Hardcoverby Arnaldur Indridason (Author)
| List Price: | $32.00 | |
| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Random House Canada | | Page Count: | 320 Pages | | Publication Date: | October 27, 2009 | | Sales Rank: | 448,521th |
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Product Description
The latest installment in the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Award–winning Reykjavik Murder Mystery series.One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam in her summer cottage. At first sight it appears to be a straightforward case of suicide; the woman, María, had never recovered from the loss of her mother two years earlier and had a history of depression. But when Karen, the friend who found her body, approaches Erlendur and gives him the tape of a séance that María had attended, his curiosity is aroused.Driven by a need to find answers, Erlendur embarks on an unofficial investigation to find out why the woman’s life ended in such an abrupt and tragic manner. At the same time, he is haunted by the unresolved cases of two young people who went missing thirty years before, and, inevitably, his discoveries raise ghosts from his own past. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 1 review)
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Ghost buster on the search for lost times by H. Schneider (window seat)  5 Stars
October 27, 2009
We are getting to know our friend Erlendur quite well by now. He has this obsession with missing people and old cases, coming from his childhood trauma of the brother lost in snow. On the other hand, he is unwilling to treat his own broken marriage with the same curiosity. What is done is done. But who says we need to be consistent. Neither does Erlendur.
Volume 6 in the series (I have not read 5, Arctic Chill, yet) is a rather slow and meditative addition. I like it for that. Erlendur moves a bit outside his real job and investigates the background of a suicide, which is no case at all, officially. At the same time he is talking to people related to stone cold disappearance cases.
Erlendur does not believe in ghosts, but this non-case pulls him into esoteric worlds. Near death experiences, dreams, hallucinations, a book dropped from a shelf, séances with one medium and then the other, a haunted house, voices of the dead. These are the stuff that some worlds are made of. Not really Erlendur's world, nor mine, but he handles them like we would expect him to: with curiosity and mistrust. He does well. He has grown further in my respect.
Another question is, is it a good thriller? I would suspect that the thriller habitué might be a bit dissatisfied. Too slow, too ponderous, too unsurprising.
For us Erlendur pals, it is a good one. Good for friendship. The man is rounding out, his edges are getting smoother. His social intelligence seems to grow somewhat. He doesn't always behave like a bull in the china shop. Only sometimes.
Literature wise, the novel signifies a departure. The central book reference in this novel is not Laxness, for a change, but Proust. Indridason himself is neither a Laxness nor a Proust, but he comes closer. `Du cote de chez Swann' is the key book for the story.
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