Macmillan: The Draining Lake: A Thriller (Reykjavík Thriller): Mr. Arnaldur Indridason: Books

Books
- Awards Coming Soon New at Macmillan Top Sellers Awards New at Macmillan Top Sellers Awards New at Macmillan Top Sellers Books for First-Year Reading Course Favorites Featured
  
  Arts and Photography Biography and Memoirs Business and Investing Comics and Graphic Novels Cooking, Food and Wine Crafts Entertainment Health, Mind & Body
  
  History Home and Garden Literature and Fiction Mystery and Thrillers Nonfiction Outdoors Parenting and Families Poetry
  
  Reference Religion and Spirituality Romance Science Science Fiction and Fantasy Sports Travel
  Children and Teens Palgrave Scholarly and Reference
  
  All Categories
  
  Audies Finalists 2009 Best Book You've Never Read Biographies and Autobiographies for Junior High and Up Lewis and Clark Expedition Began Memorial Day Paris Review Books
  All Collections
Authors
- Tours & Events All Authors
Publishers
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux FSG Hardcovers FSG Paperbacks Hill & Wang Faber & Faber First Second Henry Holt & Co. Henry Holt Hardcovers Henry Holt Paperbacks Metropolitan Books Times Books Macmillan Audio Behind the Wheel Nature Publishing Group Palgrave Macmillan
  
  Picador Quick and Dirty Tips Scientific American St. Martin's Press Minotaur Books Thomas Dunne Books Tor/Forge Tor Books Forge Books Orb Books Tor/Seven Seas
  Bedford, Freeman and Worth Bedford/St. Martin’s W.H. Freeman
  
  Worth Publishers BFW High School i>clicker Hayden-McNeil Palgrave Macmillan Trade Books For Courses
  FSG Books for Young Readers Feiwel & Friends Holt Books for Young Readers Kingfisher Roaring Brook Priddy Books Starscape/Tor Teen Square Fish Young Listeners Macmillan Kids
Services
- About Macmillan Publishers Booksellers Academic Library Catalogs Macmillan Speakers

Advanced Search

The Draining Lake: A Thriller (Reykjavík Thriller)

See larger image
See Hi-Res Jpeg image

The Draining Lake

A Thriller

Reykjavík Thriller

Arnaldur Indridason

Picador, September 2009
ISBN: 978-0-312-42858-7, ISBN10: 0-312-42858-8,
5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches, 336 pages,

Trade Paperback

$14.00

Buy

other sellers

Hardcover

$24.95

Buy

other sellers

Praise
Guides
Biography
Reading Group Gold

Share this book with friends through your favorite social networking site.

Shelve:

add this book's widget
to your site or blog

Related Lists

Picador Crime

Featured Titles

Top Sellers
New Releases
Coming Soon

Other Books You Might Like

Arctic Chill

A Thriller

Arnaldur Indridason
Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books

Voices

A Reykjavik Thriller

Arnaldur Indridason
Picador

Silence of the Grave

A Thriller

Arnaldur Indridason
Picador

Jar City

A Reykjavík Thriller

Arnaldur Indridason
Picador

The Interpretation of Murder

A Novel

Jed Rubenfeld
Picador

The Ivory Coast

A Novel

Charles Fleming
Picador

Volk's Game

A Novel

Brent Ghelfi
Picador

The Army of the Republic

A Novel

Stuart Archer Cohen
Picador

Inspector Erlendur returns in this international Bestseller

Following an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake suddenly falls, revealing a skeleton. Inspector Erlendur's investigation takes him back to the Cold War era, when bright, left-wing students in Iceland were sent to study in the "heavenly state" of Communist East Germany. Teaming with spies and informants, though, their "heavenly state" becomes a nightmare of betrayal and murder. Brilliantly weaving international espionage and a chilling cold case investigation, The Draining Lake is Arnaldur Indriason at his best.

Praise

"[A] remarkable series."--The New York Times Book Review

"Indridason keeps readers guessing . . . until the very last pages of this moody investigation."--The Washington Post Book World

"The missing-persons theme and the exploration of Icelandic history and society remain the trademarks of this outstanding series; this time the addition of international espionage will remind readers of Henning Mankell in The White Lioness and The Dogs of Riga."--Booklist

"This is exceptional fiction that transcends its genre."--Library Journal

"An undiluted pleasure . . . This series places Indridason at the center of the best of contemporary crime fiction. He is a master storyteller and has a real gift for evoking the complex humanity at the heart of the most dour-seeming individuals."--The Guardian (UK)

"A book as subtle and moving as it is suspenseful."--The Wall Street Journal

About the Author(s)

Mr. Arnaldur Indridason

ARNALDUR INDRIÐASON won the Glass Key award for Best Nordic Crime Novel for both Jar City and Silence of the Grave. He lives in Reykjavík.

photo: Photo: Einar Falur Ingolfsson

See What People Are Saying:

Guides

Reading Group Guide

53 KB

You May Also Be Interested In

Trade Paperback : 18.00 Buy

A Place of Greater Safety

A Novel

Hilary Mantel
Picador

It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danton, an ambitious young lawyer, is energetic, pragmatic,...

Trade Paperback : 18.00 Buy

The Naked and the Dead

50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author

Norman Mailer
Picador

Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and...

Trade Paperback : 16.00 Buy

"Society Must Be Defended"

Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976

Lectures at the Collège de France

Michel Foucault; Translated by David Macey; Edited by Mauro Bertani and Alessandro Fontana; General Editors: François Ewald and Alessandro Fontana; English Series Editor: Arnold I. Davidson
Picador

An examination of the relation between war and politics, by one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers From 1971 until 1984 at the...