A deeply compassionate story of old crimes and their consequences, The Shadow District is the first in a thrilling new series of novels by the worldwide bestseller Arnaldur Indridason.
Then: In wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled behind the National Theatre, a rough and dangerous area of the city known as 'the shadow district.' Now: A 90-year-old man who is smothered with his own pillow has old newspaper cuttings of the shadow district murder. Why, after all this time, would an old crime resurface? How are these cases linked across the decades?
