Reykjavik Murder Mysteries – Saul Reichlin narrations – Arnaldur Indridason Free Audiobook

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Arnaldur Indridason
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Written by Arnaldur Indridason
Read by Saul Reichlin
Format: Mixed
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Titles for which Saul Reichlin narrations are not found (AFAIK) are marked with asterisks.

Thanks to the original uploaders.

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The original Erlendur series

Sons of Dust (Synir duftsins – 1997)
Not yet translated.

Silent Kill (Dauðarósir – 1998)
Not yet translated.

Jar City (Mýrin – 2000)
When it was released in English in 2004, Jar City introduced us to Inspector Erlendur’s universe, including his boss Marion and two sidekicks Elinborg and Sigurdur Oli. An old loner is found murdered in his decrepit flat, and the killer has left a note and a photograph of a child’s grave. Erlendur and his team explore the old man’s past and reveal disturbing secrets. They later learn the child in the picture died of a rare genetic disease and that her mother committed suicide. Was it a revenge killing? The forensic evidence they gather eventually leads to a high tech lab, the eponymous jar city, and a tense showdown with the killer. The book won the Glass Key Award for Scandinavian crime fiction in 2002, and was later made into a film by director Baltasar Kormakur, starring Ingvar E Sigurdsson.

Silence of the Grave (Grafarþögn – 2001)
In 2005, Silence of the Grave became the second Erlendur novel to appear in English. As the detective struggles to save his drug addict daughter Eva Lind from herself, a body is found in a shallow grave in an old Reykjavik town that is being dug up to make way for suburbs. The body is found to be quite old, but the hills that once formed the area have many stories to tell – of love, domestic violence, and murder. Indridason masterfully weaves past and present and more than a few surprises all the way to the end, as we discover the identity of the body, killer and witness. This one is a favorite with many Indridason fans. It won the Glass Key in 2003 and the CWA International Dagger in 2005.

Voices (Röddin – 2003)
It’s Christmas time, and the doorman of a busy hotel is found murdered in the basement. He is dressed as Santa Claus, and his trousers are down around his ankles as though he was dispatched in the middle of a sexual act, possibly with a prostitute. Once the chuckles subside and Erlendur is brought in to investigate, we learn more about the victim. In his youth, he was a promising soprano with the voice of an angel whose fate turned on a dime and resulted in tragedy. Erlendur seeks answers among the hotel staff, the victim’s own troubled past, and an avid record collector of choirboy recordings. This case is one of the most poignant stories found in Scandinavian crime fiction.

The Draining Lake (Kleifarvatn – 2004)
A skeleton is found in a lake which is slowly draining after an earthquake. A hole in the skull points to murder, and what is most interesting is that the body was weighted down by a Cold War-era spy device. As Erlendur and his team struggle to identify the victim, their investigation runs parallel to the perpetrator’s back story of love and betrayal in communist East Germany. Erlendur further develops his new love interest, a biotechnician named Valgerdur, and his old boss also weighs in on the case. The story arc of Erlendur’s family matters also develops when his son Sindri appears out of the blue.

*Arctic Chill (Vetrarborgin – 2005)
When a young boy of Thai descent is found murdered, racism is suspected. Erlendur recruits the victim’s own mother to help as he looks for answers at the boy’s school. Getting few answers from a local paedophile, he encounters resistance from the child’s family, his classmates and the local thugs, which include similar ethnic outcasts. Here we learn more about Erlendur’s children, who want answers about their father’s strange ways. They are curious about the circumstances behind his brother’s death, which has haunted him all these years. We also learn more about the personal life of Erlendur’s police colleague, the moralistic, unyielding Sigurdur Oli.

Hypothermia (Harðskafi – 2007)
A woman is found hanged in her own summer cottage. Although apparently a suicide, Erlendur isn’t buying it. He conducts an informal investigation based on his own hunches, convinced the answers lie somehow with the woman’s husband and a local psychic she consulted. Erlendur slowly renews ties with his children by finally confronting head-on the story of his brother’s death. His disastrous attempt to reconcile with his ex-wife, the intrusions of his children, and the death of his old boss Marion overwhelm Erlendur. And yet, as so often happens in crime fiction, these distractions fuel his impetus to solve two old missing persons cases that seem related.

*Outrage (Myrká – 2008)
With Erlendur away on mysterious personal business, his female colleague Elinborg plays the central role in Outrage. She’s out to find the killer of a date rape predator who was apparently caught red handed and murdered. The storytelling style is markedly different, focussing on Elinborg and her thought processes, and we discover just what an excellent a detective she is. Her passion for cooking, her home life and relationship with her husband and children are also explored, to the point where they play a role in how the case is solved. For instance, the smell of tandoori food and another unknown odor at the crime scene are clues in the investigation. We see how she feels towards Erlendur and Sigurdur Oli – it’s like an insider report on their crime unit.

Black Skies (Svörtuloft – 2009)
It’s Sigurdur Oli’s turn to take the spotlight but from the start he receives attention he doesn’t need. Off duty, he goes to warn off a blackmailer for a friend of a friend but walks in on a violent scene. The blackmailer lies battered on the floor, and Oli himself gets a smack on the head. When the woman dies in hospital Oli has to duck the queries of his colleagues as to why he was at the scene. Solving this case and staying out of hot water is his aim, while on the side a Reykjavik vagrant is trying to leave messages for him about an old paedophilia case. Corporate greed comes into play in the murder enquiry, while Oli is frustrated by his failed marriage, ex-wife and overbearing mother.

Strange Shores (Furðustrandir – 2010)
The most recent Erlendur novel sees the policeman sleeping in the crumbling remains of his family’s old home in rural Iceland. He showers at the local swimming pool and meditates on his memories and emotions. Talking to a fox hunter, he becomes intrigued by the case of a woman who, like Erlendur’s little brother, disappeared during a snowstorm. In between wandering the hills and fjords in the hope of finding the bones of his brother, and recalling the sadness that pervaded his family when he was a boy, Erlendur also unravels Matthildur’s touching story – because there was more to her death than bad weather. Contemplative and almost dreamlike in parts, Strange Shores is different in tone and narrative to the previous novels in the series.

The young Erlendur cases

The Great Match (Einvígið – 2011)
Due for translation by Harvill Secker.

Reykjavik Nights (Reykjavíkurnætur – 2012)
The first ‘Young Erlendur’ novel has him just settling into the police force. While working traffic detail, Erlendur becomes obsessed with the drowning of a homeless alcoholic called Hannibal. At the same time, he searches for a young woman called Oddny who has disappeared without trace. Nobody really cares about either victim. Hannibal, for instance, was a lone whose life and death seem inconsequential. But not to Erlendur, who seeks to trace the man’s story before he becomes another cold case. In doing so he discovers that there might have been a link between what happened to Hannibal and Oddny’s disappearance. The book introduces girlfriend Halldora, his future ex-wife, and we see both his reticent and stand-offish side as well as his natural curiosity and investigative spirit germinating.

*Into Oblivion (Kamp Knox – 2014)
The second Young Erlendur novel to appear in English takes place in 1979. Well, Kramer vs Kramer and Alien are showing at the movie theatre we figure that is the date. Erlendur and Marion respond to the discovery of a corpse in a mineral pool found by a bather. Forensics determines that the man didn’t drown but died from a fall from a great height. Identifying the man as an aircraft mechanic called Kristvin, they are led to his workplace – the massive US military base near Keflavik. But the Americans won’t cooperate with the Icelandic police, though wider speculation suggests ties to nuclear arms smuggling and the involvement of a CIA operative. Erlendur also becomes involved with the cold case of a young Reykjavík schoolgirl who disappeared over 25 years ago.

(Source: Crime Fiction Lover)

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