Elinborg and Sigurdur Oli, on the other hand, aren’t particularly persuasive characters, but flashbacks to the University of Leipzig during the Cold War provide compelling insights into the splintered politics of the day, as well as the Icelandic students studying there at the time. Erlendur’s lifelong obsession with the missing provides a haunting metaphor for this lonely, middle-aged man, divorced and alienated from his own two children.
As Erlendur and his colleagues, Elinborg and Sigurdur Oli, go about checking on people who went missing around 1970, Erlendur is reminded of the disappearance of his younger brother when they were children. Inspector Erlendurs investigation takes him back to the Cold War era, when bright, left-wing students in Iceland were sent to study in the 'heavenly state' of Communist East Germany. The bones are tied to some kind of Russian listening device, presumably a remnant of the Cold War. Inspector Erlendur returns in this international Bestseller Following an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake suddenly falls, revealing a skeleton. , etc.), a human skeleton surfaces in the bed of a lake near Reykjavik that’s been mysteriously draining away.
At the start of Gold Dagger Award–winner Indridason’s carefully plotted fourth entry in his crime series starring detective Erlendur Sveinsson ( Jar City
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