Hypothermia: An Icelandic Thrillerby Arnaldur Indridason
Minotaur Books, 2011. 314 pgs. Mystery
Maria's friend Karen is glad for a chance to relax and recoup at Maria's lakeside cottage but never expects what she finds there--Maria's body hanging from a roof beam. Since Maria had been distraught for some time over her mother's death from cancer, her death is ruled a suicide, but after Inspector Erlendur receives a tape of a seance from another of Maria's friends, in which Maria is seemingly contacted and warned of imminent danger by her dead father. As he unofficially follows up, interested in some inconsistencies in the case and by Maria's fascination with an afterlife, Erlendur continues to push, probe, and question until a very different story from the official explanation emerges, one he is unlikely ever to be able to prove. An elegant, eerie puzzle of a mystery, Hypothermia also reveals much about Erlendur's personal demons having somewhat to do with the disappearance of his brother and his own near-death in a blizzard, and his need to solve the disappearance of another young man before the boy's father dies without any resolution. Yet another in the hopefully unending stream of remarkable mysteries from Scandinavia.
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