Voices (Indriðason novel) explained

Voices
Title Orig:Röddin
Translator:Bernard Scudder
Author:Arnaldur Indriðason
Country:Iceland
Language:Icelandic
Series:Detective Erlendur, #5
Genre:Crime novel
Publisher:Harvill Secker
Release Date:2002 (orig.) & August 2006 (Eng. trans.)
Media Type:Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages:320 pp (Eng. trans.)
Isbn:1-84655-033-5
Isbn Note:(Eng. trans.)
Oclc:65470008
Preceded By:Silence of the Grave
Followed By:The Draining Lake

Voices (Icelandic: Röddin) is a 2006 translation of a 2003 crime novel by Icelandic author Arnaldur Indriðason, in his 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.[1] 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.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Voices. Macmillan Publishers. 8 August 2015.