Strange shores

By Arnaldur Indriðason

Subjects: Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Missing persons, fiction, Family secrets, Large type books, Missing persons, Fiction, Iceland, fiction, Erlendur Sveinsson (Fictitious character)

Description: "[B]egins when a young woman disappears from the frozen fjords of Iceland. In her wake, this woman has left a tempest of lies, betrayal and revenge. Decades later, somewhere in the same wilderness, Detective Erlendur is on the hunt. He is looking for the missing woman but also for his long-lost brother, whose disappearance in a snowstorm when they were children has coloured his entire life. Slowly, the past begins to surrender its secrets. But as Erlendur uncovers a story about the limits of human endurance, he realizes that many people would prefer their crimes to stay buried" --