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Original title Mýrin Publication date 2000 (Iceland) Adaptations Jar City (2006) Genres Crime Fiction, Mystery | 3.8/5 Goodreads Country Iceland Series Detective Erlendur, #3 Originally published 2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jar City, also known as Tainted Blood (Icelandic: Mýrin, "The Bog") ( listen ), is a crime novel by Icelandic author Arnaldur Indriðason, first published in Iceland in 2000. It was the first in the Detective Erlendur series to be translated into English (in 2004). In the UK, the title was changed to Tainted Blood when the paperback edition was released.
Contents
The novel is at one level a fierce critique of the gene-gathering work of deCODE genetics:
Plot introduction
The body of a 70-year-old man has been found in a flat in Norðurmýri having been struck on the head with a glass ashtray. The only clues are a photograph of a young girl's grave, and cryptic note left on the body. Detective Erlendur discovers the victim was accused of a violent rape some forty years earlier, but was never convicted...
Awards
The novel won the Scandinavian crime writers' Glass Key award in 2002 for best Nordic crime fiction novel. In 2003, Arnaldur Indriðason's following novel, Silence of the Grave, also won the award, making him the first author to have won the award two years in a row.
Adaptations
An eponymous film of Jar City, was directed by Baltasar Kormákur and premiered in Iceland on 20 October 2006 and in the UK on 12 September 2008.