Hypothermia

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One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam at her holiday cottage. At first sight, it appears like a straightforward case of suicide; María had never recovered from the death of her mother two years previously and she had a history of depression. But then the friend who found her body approaches Detective Erlendur with a tape of a séance that María attended before her death and his curiosity is aroused.

Driven by a need to find answers, Erlendur begins an unofficial investigation into María's death. But he is also haunted by another unsolved mystery - the disappearance of two young people thirty years ago - and by his own quest to find the body of his brother, who died in a blizzard when he was a boy. Hypothermia is Indridason's most compelling novel yet.

Critics Review

  • one of the most haunting crime novels you can expect to read: unsentimental, yet informed throughout by Indridason’s extraordinary empathy with human suffering

    The Times

  • An intelligent, gripping and moody tale with superior characterisation

    The Times

  • The narrative grips, the writing, excellently translated by Cribb, is resonant and lyrical, and the atmosphere is chillingly creepy

    Guardian

  • Hypothermia is one of the most haunting crime novels I’ve read in a long time, unsentimental yet informed by the author’s extraordinary empathy with human suffering

    Sunday Times

  • An insightful human story, beautifully written and translated

    Literary Review

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