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A big thank you to Marcia for originating Mailbox Monday<\/a>. In this weekly meme you share books which came into your home during the week. I really didn’t think I’d pick up anything new this week but I picked up something on NetGalley and the library from the same author.<\/p>\n Here are the books I picked up this week:<\/p>\n The Shadow District<\/strong> by Arnaldur Indri\u00c3\u00b0ason –<\/p>\n THE PRESENT A MISSING LINK The Darkness Knows<\/strong> by Arnaldur Indri\u00c3\u00b0ason –<\/p>\n A frozen body is discovered in the icy depths of Langj\u00c3\u00b6kull glacier, apparently that of a businessman who disappeared thirty years before. At the time, an extensive search and police investigation yielded no results\u00e2\u20ac\u2022one of the missing man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s business associates was briefly held in custody, but there wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t enough evidence to charge him.<\/p>\n Now the associate is arrested again and Konrad, the retired policeman who originally investigated the disappearance, is called back to reopen the case that has weighed on his mind for decades. In\u00c2\u00a0The Darkness Knows<\/i>, the master of Icelandic crime writing reunites readers with Konrad, the unforgettable retired detective from\u00c2\u00a0The Shadow District<\/i>. This is a powerful and haunting story about the poisonous secrets and cruel truths that time eventually uncovers.<\/p>\n What arrived in your mailbox this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A big thank you to Marcia for originating Mailbox Monday. In this weekly meme you share books which came into your home during the week. I really didn’t think I’d pick up anything new this week but I picked up something on NetGalley and the library from the same author. Here are the books I… Continue reading Mailbox Monday – April 26th<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[923,101],"class_list":["post-5139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","tag-arnaldur-indridason","tag-mailbox-monday","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5140,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139\/revisions\/5140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n
\nIn wartime Reykjavik, Iceland, a young woman is found strangled in ‘the shadow district’, a rough and dangerous area of the city. An Icelandic detective and a member of the American military police are on the trail of a brutal killer.<\/p>\n
\nA 90-year-old man is discovered dead on his bed, smothered with his own pillow. Konrad, a former detective now bored with retirement, finds newspaper cuttings reporting the WWII shadow district murder in the dead man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a crime that Konrad remembers, having grown up in the same neighborhood.<\/p>\n
\nWhy, after all this time, would an old crime resurface? Did the police arrest the wrong man? Will Konrad’s link to the past help him solve the case and finally lay the ghosts of WWII Reykjavik to rest?<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\nWhen a woman approaches him with new information that she obtained from her deceased brother, progress can finally be made in solving this long-cold case.<\/p>\n