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Loading... Black Skies (Inspector Erlendur: Thorndike Press Large Print Thriller) (original 2009; edition 2014)by Arnaldur Indridason (Author)
Work InformationBlack Skies by Arnaldur Indridason (2009)
  
No current Talk conversations about this book. Meeslepende misdaad thriller, spannend, vol mededogen met slachtoffers, terwijl het laat zien hoe slachtoffers zelf daders worden. Boeiende paradoxen ook: hoe zowel een agent als een burger "mannetjes op iemand afsturen die het leven van een dierbare heeft verwoest", en de burger tot inkeer komt, maar de agent niet. Omdat recht moet zegevieren...? Maar wie bepaalt dan wie met recht andermans leven verwoest en wie voor dezelfde daad moet bloeden? Met dat soort interessante vragen laat het boek je achter. (  ) Marjoos | Nov 16, 2022 |  Dieser Roman war gut lesbar, aber ihm fehlt die Faszination der anderen Romane aus der Reihe. Der Protagonist Sigidur Oli war für mich bisher immer der uninteressanteste Charakter im Team und dieses Buch macht das nicht besser. Er wird weder interessanter noch sympathischer. Die Probleme in seinem Privatleben (das komplizierte Verhältnis zu seinen Eltern, seine gerade zerbrochene Beziehung) werden eher oberflächlich angerissen, auch wenn sie viel Raum im Roman annehmen Der Fall, den er zu lösen hatte, war ok, aber nicht wirklich neu oder spannend. Leider bleibt auch die Frage offen, wie er mit den Verfehlungen des leitenden Ermittlers umgeht und welche Konsequenzen seine Eigenmächtigkeit für ihn selbst hat. Vielleicht kommt das im nächsten Roman, der zum Glück wieder Erlendur als Protagonisten hat. Die drei Sterne habe ich hier nur sehr knapp vergeben können - für zwei Sterne war er dann aber doch zu gut. (  ) Ellemir | May 25, 2022 | What fascinates me again and again in [[Arnaldur Indriðason]] is that he can pack an Icelandic topicality into an exciting thriller. Also this time he succeeded. It's about dubious money laundering. but you realize this only over time, since everything begins with a blackmail attempt that ends in a murder. Sigurdur Óli tries to help a friend and unfortunately has to realize that he does not tell him the whole truth. The story is fast paced and told exciting. It also shows the problem of the Icelandic financial market, which was in trouble for a long time. (  ) Ameise1 | Nov 24, 2018 | Number 8 in the English-language version of the Inspector Erlendur series set in Iceland, and this one focuses on one member of the 3-person group in which Erlendur usually works. The story takes place during the same time as "Outrage", the previous book in the series, and directly following a particularly nasty case the trio had solved in the excellent "Hypothermia", the sixth in the series. Although the main character is less likable, the book is quite good and concerns three events Sigurdur Óli is investigating: the bludgeoning death of a would-be blackmailer in her home, the disappearance and subsequent death of a banker during a tour of the glaciers with some co-workers, and the decades-old abuse of a young boy and his attempts to come to terms with it when he spots his abuser while living on the streets of Reykjavik. ( ) auntmarge64 | Aug 6, 2018 | Not as good as some of the earliest books in the series, this one is still worth reading, if only because Oli is kind of an ass. ( ) laurenbufferd | Nov 14, 2016 |
As the latest book in Indridason’s absorbing Icelandic series gets under way, the year is 2008, and Erlendur, the dour but resourceful senior homicide detective in Reykjavik’s CID, is still out of action. That means the case of a young woman’s murder by bludgeoning falls to the dyspeptic Inspector Sigurdur Oli. Familiar as the second banana in past books, Sigurdur Oli is abrupt and cranky by nature. He expresses his right wing political views in language that is about as nuanced as Rush Limbaugh’s. Nevertheless, he is reliably dogged, and he tracks the bludgeoning case through a tangle that includes wife-swapping, child pornography and murderous debt collectors. When Sigurdur Oli’s sleuthing gains momentum, he frequently brushes against Iceland’s financial community. He finds himself put off by the incredible extravagance he sees among the country’s bankers. “The problem,” Sigurdur Oli realizes, “is that few of the people involved in this new big-bucks business have much experience in finance, and some of them aren’t all that bright.” Bearing in mind it’s 2008, Sigurdur Oli’s observations have particular resonance. Unrealized by him and by almost everybody else, he has touched on the causes behind the economic recession that would crush Iceland’s economy later that year and soon spread around the world. Throughout Black Skies, while Sigurdur Oli gets on with the immediate business of solving a murder case, the message that pounds in the book’s background is all about the greed and stupidity of bankers. Belongs to SeriesInspector Erlendur (10)
Fiction.
Mystery.
Suspense.
Thriller.
Arnaldur Indridason has been crime writing's best-kept secret ... until now. A man is making a crude leather mask with slits for eyes and mouth, and an iron spike fixed in the middle of the forehead. It is a 'death mask', once used by Icelandic farmers to slaughter calves. He has revenge in mind. Meanwhile, with Detective Erlendur absent, his baseball-loving colleague Sigurdur Oli is in the spotlight. A school reunion has left Sigurdur Oli dissatisfied with life in the police force. Iceland is enjoying an economic boom and young tycoons are busy partying with the international jet set. In contrast, Sigurdur Oli's relationship is on the rocks and soon even his position in the CID is compromised: when he agrees to visit a couple of blackmailers as a favour to a friend he walks in just as a woman is beaten unconscious. When she dies, Sigurdur Oli has a murder investigation on his hands. The evidence leads to debt collectors, extortionists, swinging parties. But when a chance link connects these enquiries to the activities of a group of young bankers, Sigurdur Oli finds himself investigating the very elite he had envied. Moving from the villas of ReykjavIk's banking elite to a sordid basement flat, Black Skies is a superb story of greed, pride and murder from one of Europe's most successful crime writers. No library descriptions found. 
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 Google Books — Loading...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)839.6935Literature German literature and literatures of related languages Other Germanic literatures Old Norse, Old Icelandic, Icelandic, Faroese literatures Modern West Scandinavian; Modern Icelandic Modern Icelandic fiction 21st CenturyLC ClassificationRatingAverage: (3.65)
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