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Original title Grafarþögn Language Icelandic Originally published 2001 Preceded by Jar City Publisher Harvill Secker | 3.9/5 Goodreads Country Iceland Series Detective Erlendur, #4 Followed by Voices Genres Crime Fiction, Mystery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Translator Bernard Scudder (English)
Éric Boury (French) Publication date 2001 (orig.) & 5 May 2005 (Eng. trans.) Crime Fiction books Don't Look Back, Faceless Killers, Sidetracked, Live Flesh, Bones and Silence | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Silence of the grave h siopi tou tumvou
Silence of the Grave (Icelandic: Grafarþögn) is a crime novel by Icelandic writer Arnaldur Indriðason. Set in Reykjavík, the novel forms part of the author's regionally popular Murder Mystery Series, which star Detective Erlendur. Originally published in Icelandic in 2001, the English translation by Bernard Scudder, in 2005, won the British Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger award for best crime novel of the year. The novel has the distinction of being the last ever to do so, as the award was renamed in 2006.
Contents
Human bones are found buried in a construction site in Grafarholt. The police starts investigating only to uncover dark secrets from 70 years ago and in a parallel narrative we hear the story of an abused woman from the same time, who is somehow connected to the bones.