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Title	:	The Draining Lake (Inspector Erlendur #6)
Author	:	Arnaldur Indriðason
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	August 2nd 2007 by Harvill Secker (first published 2004)
Categories	:	Mystery. Crime. Fiction. European Literature. Scandinavian Literature. Thriller. Scandinavian Lite.... Nordic Noir

The Draining Lake (Inspector Erlendur #6) Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

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Another murder mystery from the northlands – Iceland this time. A skeleton is revealed when a lake is naturally drained due to an earthquake. The skeleton had been weighted down by Russian radio equipment. Who can it be? Our three Icelandic detectives start investigating people who disappeared around the time of the Cold War. It turns out that several Communist-leaning Icelandic students went to study in East Germany at that time, one of whom disappeared. So quite a bit of the story takes us back to what it was like to be as student at Leipzig in the 1950’s.



Another possible victim is a salesman who went missing – his ex-fiancé is still around and still kind of hoping he might still show up fifty years later.

We also follow snippets of the personal lives of the team of three detectives, two men and a woman. One is haunted by a brother lost in the snow as a boy and deals with a drug-addicted daughter.

The book, translated from the Icelandic is part of a series, of which I also read and liked, The Silence of the Grave. If you’ve read this far I’ll tell you that I actually rate this story as a 4 – it’s a pretty good detective read. But I’m giving it a 3 for the lack of inventiveness of the premise, which is identical to Silence of the Grave --- a skeleton is found from 50 year ago and the three detectives go back to find everyone missing at that time and come up with four missing people, etc. --- I mean, come on! That’s really pushing your formula too far.

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Mention Books Conducive To The Draining Lake (Inspector Erlendur #6)

Original Title:	Kleifarvatn
ISBN:	1846550955 (ISBN13: 9781846550959)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Inspector Erlendur #6, Inspector Erlendur [English Translation Order] #4
Characters:	Sigurður Óli, Erlendur Sveinsson, Elínborg
Setting:	Reykjavik (Reykjavík)(Iceland) Iceland Leipzig(Germany)
Literary Awards:	Barry Award for Best Novel (2009), Macavity Award Nominee for Best Mystery Novel (2009), Prix du Polar Européen (2008)

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He went away, but all the same...hell never go away, she said with a sad smile playing across her lips.I know, Erlendur said. I know what you mean.After an earthquake, a lake begins to disappear, revealing a skeleton with Cold War Russian technology wrapped around the neck to help it sink to the bottom of the lake bed and stay there. The pathologists determine that the skeleton is male and has been there since the 1960s. The Icelandic police department pulls all the missing person files from

An earthquake near an Icelandic lake causes part of the lake to drain and a skeleton is discovered attached to some Soviet listening devices, presumably dating from the Cold War.. Detective Erlendur Sveinsson (The Jar City) has his own problems with a daughter constantly getting into trouble, a son who resents his aloofness, and his own periodic and obsessive search for a brother gone missing many years before in a snowstorm. He and his colleagues try to track down the identity of the dead man,

5.0 out of 5 stars An outstanding author-an outstanding series and then some., April 2, 2014 This review is from: The Draining Lake: An Inspector Erlendur Novel (An Inspector Erlendur Series) 5 stars -The Draining lake.This author does not appear to be running out of gas or burning out on this series anytime soon.This is Inspector Erlendur at his best. Unraveling a decades old mystery of a skeleton found in a drained lake. But is it as simple as all that??? Of course not! This mystery goes back

Arnaldur Indridason is my new favorite mystery author. I'm reading about one book in the series each week and anticipating the next book in the series. I read other books, too, but I can't wait to get back to Indridason. The Draining Lake reminds me of Silence of the Grave in a number of ways -- all positive. This book features the discovery of a long-buried skeleton and the mystery reaches into Iceland's past. This time, the present connects to the Cold War, retelling the story of some



I don't why I picked this book. Sometimes I walk past the library shelves in Fiction and just pick one up. If I like the cover (I know - so scientific), I'll read it.So, begins why I had this book. It's written by an Icelandic writer, Arnaldur Indridason and it was translated into English. On my last horrid plane ride with one stop (3 hours that took 10 hours), I met a man from Iceland one a stopover in Phoenix - he and a friend were on their way to a dinner in Taos - he was Wiccan - He wore a

Synopsis....In the wake of an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake drops suddenly, revealing the skeleton of a man half-buried in its sandy bed. It is clear immediately that it has been there for many years. There is a large hole in the skull. Yet more mysteriously, a heavy communication device is attached to it, possibly some sort of radio transmitter, bearing inscriptions in Russian.The police are called in and Erlendur, Elinborg and Sigurdur Oli begin their investigation, which