Voices | Arnaldur Indridason | You Owe it to Yourself!

Voices | Arnaldur Indridason | CWA Gold Dagger Winner Author Scores Again

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Voices

	Voices Arnaldur Indridason Vintage Books, 2007 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 5 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Following the huge success of Silence of the Grave, Indridason has followed through with another spellbinding thriller ? the third in the award-winning Reykjavik Murder Mysteries.

At a grand Reykjavik hotel the doorman has been repeatedly stabbed in the dingy basement room he called home. It is only a few days before Christmas and he was preparing to appear as Santa Claus at a children?s party. The manager tries to keep the murder under wraps. A glum detective taking up residence in his hotel and an intrusive murder investigation are not what he needs.

As Erlendur quietly surveys the cast of grotesques who populate the hotel, the web of malice, greed and corruption which lies beneath its surface reveals itself. Everyone has something to hide. But most shocking is the childhood secret of the dead man who, many years before, was the most famous child singer in the country: it turns out to be a brush with stardom that would ultimately cost him everything. As Christmas Day approaches, Erlendur must delve deeply into the past to find the man?s killer.

Voices is a tense, atmospheric and disturbing novel from one of Europe?s greatest crime writers.

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You Owe it to Yourself!

I just finished reading 3 books (in 3.5 days) by a wonderful author I've recently discovered: Arnaldur Indridason & he's Icelandic.
The 3 books that have been translated into English are: JAR CITY (2004), SILENCE OF THE GRAVE (2005) & VOICES (2006). Two more are scheduled for release late next year and I can hardly wait!!!

It's truly a fascinating read and it pulled me in FAST, drawing me to the next novel and then the next at a pretty fast clip.

There's not the kind of action, drama, gruesomeness that is in many crime/thriller novels these days. There is a feeling that you accompany the detectives on their journey to a resolution. You can feel the cold, see the landscape, experience the smells and the warmth of a fire!

It's like watching a foreign movie. You're drawn into an interplay with the characters as they evolve. If Arnaldur Indridson's books were made into movies, they'd need Alfred Hitchcock as the director. Both can (could) tease you with fear that's been subtly created.

I can't say enough. Check this author out yourself.

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CWA Gold Dagger Winner Author Scores Again

This is directly quoted from the jacket because it has not been posted yet:

Detective Erlendur encounters memories of his troubled past in this gripping and award-winning continuation of the Reykjavik Murder Mysteries.

At a grand Reykjavik hotel, the doorman has been repeatedly stabbed in the dingy basement room he called home. It is only a few days before Christmas and he was preparing to appear as Santa Claus at a children's party. The manager tries to keep the murder under wraps. A glum detective taking up residence in his hotel and an intrusinve murder investigation are not what he needs.

As Erlendur quietly surveys the cast of grotesques who popluate the hotel, the web of malice, greed and coruption that lies beneath the surface reveals itself. Everyone has something to hide. But most shocking is the childhood secret of the dead man who, many years before, was the most famous child singer in the country. It turns out to be a brush with stardom which could ultimately cost him everything. As Christmas Day approaches Erlendur must delve deeply into the past to find the man's killer.

Voices is a tense, atmospheric and disturbing novel from one of Europes greates crime writers."

Arnaldur allows the reader to get inside his protagonist's head in a way few authors are able to do. Interwoven in this procedural are bits of Erlendur's own troubled life and family. As you follow him on his rounds of interviewing the characters involved in the victim's life, you will encounter the extremes of human emotion. This is definitely a "can't put down" novel.

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A Mystery With Unimagined Depths

A man has been murdered in a tiny basement room in one of Reykjavik's grandest hotels. A man who's been the doorman/handyman and seasonal Santa Claus at the hotel for years, although no one seems to know much about him. A man with a strange and tragic past. A man who was once, briefly, famous.

Erlendur is the detective assigned to the case-- a haunted, brooding man with family problems and unresolved issues from his own past. A man who buries himself in the case and tries to avoid going home, even as Christmas approaches. As he and his colleagues investigate, they find themselves peeling back layer upon layer of sadness and horror, encountering family secrets long buried, and learning more than they ever wanted about themselves as well.

Author Arnaldur Indridason is one of Iceland's great contemporary writers, and I'm so glad his work is available in English. He is a brilliant writer who goes deep below the surface to explore the dark corners of human nature. This, then, is far more than a murder mystery, though it's a good one. It is a story about lost innocence, ruined childhood and family secrets and it's brilliantly done. The only problem I had was wrapping my mind around the numerous Icelandic names, but with time I got used to them. I enjoyed Voices immensely and recommend it most highly. Reviewed by Louis N. Gruber.

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Totally engrossing

I have to admit that I am favorably drawn to many of the scandavian writers to begin with, but that does not affect my feeling that each one of the volumes written by Indridason has been better than the last. Unlike American novels that tend to be plot driven, these are usually character oriented and understanding the mental processes, and inherent conflicts, of each of the characters is fascinating to me. I get a strong sense of the different culture involved, Icelandic in this series, and I found this book delightful. I finished it quickly because I enjoyed it so much. I'm looking forward to reading "Draining Lake", the most recent in the series.

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A Great Read

This is the 2nd novel featuring the same team of detectives. Iceland, with only 300,000 people, is blissfully very low on murders, so this story takes place in the past. It is both a great mystery novel and a great history lesson of modern Iceland.

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