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"On an icy January day the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood.
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Contemporary, grave, classical in form and earnest.
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- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Arnaldur Indriðason
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 344
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781846550652
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