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Original title Röddin Country Iceland Originally published October 2006 Preceded by Silence of the Grave Genre Crime Fiction | 3.9/5 Goodreads Translator Bernard Scudder Language Icelandic Followed by The Draining Lake Publisher Random House | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publication date 2002 (orig.) & August 2006 (Eng. trans. ) Media type Print (Hardcover, Paperback) Similar Arnaldur Indriðason books, An Inspector Erlendur Series books, Crime Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Voices (Icelandic: Röddin) is a 2006 translation of a 2003 crime novel by Icelandic author Arnaldur Indriðason, another entry in the multi award-winning Detective Erlendur series. It was first published in English in August, 2006. The Swedish translation of the novel (Änglarösten) won Sweden's Martin Beck Award for the best crime novel in translation.
An old hotel doorman, preparing to dress up as Father Christmas, is found stabbed to death in a compromising position in his miserable small room. Detective Erlendur, who hits a wall of disinterest while trying to find answers, books a room in the hotel. The more he discovers of the past of the deceased, and the more demimonde figures he meets in that allegedly decent hotel, the more phantoms he reveals from his own past.