The Quiet Mother
A chilling mystery from Iceland’s king of suspense
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Publisher Description
A lifetime of secrets. A murder that will expose the truth.
'Arnaldur Indridason is a literary phenomenon' HARLAN COBEN
'Indridason writes crime novels that are as chilling as the landscape where they're set' ANN CLEEVES
'The undisputed King of the Icelandic Thriller' GUARDIAN
A woman is found murdered in her Reykjavík home, her apartment ransacked. On her desk lies a note with retired detective Konrad’s phone number. Days earlier, she had begged him to find the child she gave up nearly fifty years ago. But Konrad, reluctant to reopen old wounds, turned her away. Now, haunted by guilt, he vows to uncover the truth – for her and for himself.
As Konrad digs into the woman’s past, he is drawn into a web of secrets, lies and betrayal. Each revelation points to a hidden life that connects her death to a decades-old murder – and to shadows from Konrad’s own family history.
The Quiet Mother is a masterful blend of human tragedy and relentless suspense, where every discovery comes at a cost. Arnaldur Indridason once again proves why he is the voice of Nordic Noir, delivering a harrowing tale of guilt and redemption.
'One of the greats of modern crime fiction' Sunday Times
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Indridason's excellent third procedural featuring Reykjavík policeman Konrád (after The Girl by the Bridge) sees the detective embark on a quest to reunite a woman with her long lost child. When a terminally ill woman named Valborg tries to enlist Konrád's help to track down the son she gave up for adoption decades earlier, he refuses, as the request floods him with memories of his abusive father, who was murdered years earlier. A few days later, Valborg is killed, and her home is ransacked. Guilt-stricken, Konrád grows obsessed with locating her son, who's now an adult. In the process, he unearths unsettling parallels between the murders of Valborg and his father, chases down promising leads from his psychic friend Eygló, and navigates his fraught professional relationship with his colleague Marta, who trains her efforts on figuring out who killed Valborg. Much of the book is prototypical Indridason—atmospheric, character-driven, and sleek—but everything kicks up a notch in a brutal finale that will sear itself into the minds of readers. This series continues to impress.
