Arnaldur Indridason

Author

Arnaldur Indridason is an Icelandic crime writer whose Inspector Erlendur series has made him one of the most acclaimed and popular Scandinavian crime writers in the world. Born in Reykjavik in 1961, he studied History at the University of Iceland and worked as a journalist and film critic. Black Skies is an Inspector Erlendur novel set... in Reykjavik, exploring the darker side of Icelandic society. The series has won the Glass Key Award (twice) and the CWA Gold Dagger. Indridason's fiction is characterised by its melancholy atmosphere, its deep engagement with Icelandic culture and landscape, and its psychologically complex protagonist. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers masterful Icelandic crime fiction with one of the genre's most compelling detectives — noir as dark and cold as an Arctic winter. Read more Show less